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linuxxx
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Had an external hdd for backing up family photos etc. (back when I just discovered Linux and still used windows as well)

Connected it to my windows system and it said that the thing was corrupt and i had to format it.

Well fuck, a few hundred gb's of pictures, memories, backups etc etc probably lost. (keep in mind I didn't know that much about computers at that point)

Was about to format that thing with literally tears in my eyes when I thought I'd, because why the fuck not since I was out of options anyways, try it as well on my Ubuntu installation.

EVERYTHING WAS STILL ON THERE AND PERFECTLY ACCESSIBLE.

After a very much rage attack on windows I formatted the windows partition and used that as a backup space as well :).

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  • 12
    7y
    Awesome revenge !!!👌
  • 7
    7y
    @Lahsen2016 It was FAT32 :)
  • 2
    7y
    What absolute trash, sounds like you made the right choice. 😉
  • 3
    7y
    @demiko Hey it was about seven years ago 😫
  • 2
    7y
    @demiko True but I wasn't a good computer guy back then :).
    @ThatDude Yup :)
  • 2
    7y
    I had to install arch on an exfat partition so that windows 10 wouldn't automatically reformat it on startup.
  • 4
    7y
    see, windows always tells me my usb drives and hard drives have problems and need to be formatted, but still let me access them

    windows is dumb
  • 5
    7y
    omg same thing happened to me a few years back but i didnt know about linux back then so i lost everything. i formatted the hdd and was left with nothing
  • 4
    7y
    @nickj 😭
  • 2
    7y
    @demiko every time I boot, win 10 goes into "emergency drive recovery" then either reformats or try to overwrite any ext4 partitions.
  • 2
    7y
    @demiko yep.
  • 1
    7y
    I put my pictures on my owncloud instance on a digitalocean VPS, on resizable block storage using xfs as the filesystem. I am thinking of switching to object storage though. Way more storage for way less money. I just need to get it webdav-accessible so I can easily get to it from anywhere.
  • 1
    7y
    @bahua I use a service which offers 1tb free. Very good service and company but only available for dutchies.
    I encrypt everything locally before uploading it as well!
  • 1
    7y
    @ThatDude Only available for people from the netherlands! :/
  • 1
    7y
    @ThatDude Address details xD
  • 1
    7y
    @ThatDude Yup it's Stack from TransIP!
  • 1
    7y
    @ThatDude Yup your Dutch was good!
  • 2
    7y
    @daemonAD Not entirely sure (except for with the google maps api I thought) but I tried it with multiple fake things and it deffo did not work. Next to that they also do IP geolocation checks!
  • 2
    7y
    @daemonAD Yup that often works! Uploading/downloading works fine from outside the country by the way :)
  • 2
    7y
    @@daemonAD Let me rephrase that to 'Uploading/downloading works fine from outside the country. Based on what I've experienced myself'.
  • 1
    7y
    Yeah after having "scan and fix this device" format a flash drive I quickly learned to reset the dirty bit on my drives. Windows is fucking stupid with "corruption", and the only thing that makes a disk "dirty" is a single bit stored in its information somewhere and is set according to who even knows what conditions.
  • 2
    7y
    @ThatDude Actually Windows 7 is completely fine (relatively to Windows).
    It just like an updated XP really.

    Windows 10 on the other hand....
  • 1
    7y
    @linuxxx Yeah, I ALWAYS do disk repair/rescue stuff on Linux - even if I'm on a windows PC I insert a live usb stick for that purpose.

    It's a lot less complicated, you have more options and better tools.
  • 0
    7y
    If the external hard disk was the only copy of your pics than I wouldn't call it a back up. Just storage.
  • 1
    7y
    Every day windows yells at me saying my HDD is currupted, but reads and writes to it just fine.
  • 0
    7y
    No shit - I did this years back. Same thing happened when I was fist learning linux but I didn't stop to think that it might work again with my linux stuffs....I formatted it at Windows whim >:( it was mostly books and music but still a ton of data nonetheless. I wish I wasn't as stupid as I was at the time.
  • 1
    7y
    I would have cried if my primary photo albums were corrupted although I wouldn't have trusted Windows enough to rely on it without checking in another OS first.
  • 1
    7y
    You have a talent to butcher windows my friend. Good job 🤣
  • 1
    7y
    Not related to this rant thread but I just found that if a user changed name, the previous comments with the name became very weird. I was reading at the early comments and wondering who is that demiko person 🤔😌
  • 1
    7y
    @mrlinnth demiko == @irene :)
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