Forgot to unmount my data first… And that was before I even knew that recovery services existed, so I just chucked it in the trash. Fuck me. If I still had the drive (and an IDE controller,) it would take all of 5 minutes to re-obtain access to my “lost” data. I’m a fucking idiot, but past me was also an utter moron.
I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.
Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.
Oops, I selected the laptops os drive…
i’ve done something similar with dd before
I once decided to actually use the dread command.
I was nuking the OS, so fuck it.
Forgot to unmount my data first… And that was before I even knew that recovery services existed, so I just chucked it in the trash. Fuck me. If I still had the drive (and an IDE controller,) it would take all of 5 minutes to re-obtain access to my “lost” data. I’m a fucking idiot, but past me was also an utter moron.