I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name.

For one of my installs, I accidentally overwrote my 1TB HDD. A few minutes ago I wanted to put back some files… and all I saw was a distro.

It confused me because I was not sure if I was on my solid state drive or the HDD.

So, those files are gone. A lot is gone. Nothing too precious, I think… It might be a tremendous fuck up.

See kids, this is why you back up. Off the computer. Oh well.

EDIT: Recovering files using Photorec. Everyone who recommended this to me is a hero. Also a hero is the person who recommended FTK, but I was too eager to use something now than to sign up to download. I still should though…

  • snownyte@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Never accounting for making USB flash drives to make live installs from or knowing what commands I’m going to need to enter if things hiccup. I want to get back into BunsenLabs distros but there’s a part of the install where it asks me about optical media or some formatting thing and I never know what to enter to hop over it.

    • DidacticDumbassOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I use to rock BunsenLabs. I LOVED it. I don’t know why I ever left it.

      Like, with Debian, you can install anything. Sometimes it takes manual intervention like compiling a program oneself, but then you have it.

      I tend to just use defaults whenever possible. I remember Bunsen having the slickest post installer to grace a welcome screen.