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What Not To Do With Your Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-not-put-in-mouth dept.

Tiny Tim writes "Stupidity strikes! A data recovery company has revealed the dumbest data disasters it's confronted this year — including rotting bananas, smelly socks and a university professor's foolhardy application of WD-40."

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  1. Re:favorite data loss tale by Evilest+Doer · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Someone I know had an important data disc that he used with no problems. Everything was going fine until he decided to get a little more educated about computer commands. He read a statement somewhere that said you need to "format discs before you use them." After reading this, he made sure to format the data disc before the next time he tried to access it.
    So, he's like krell. Learn a tiny bit about something, and thing your a fucking expert.
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    I feel like death on a soda cracker.