>Power outage knocks out my external WD 4TB hard drive
>It no longer shows up in My Computer
>It shows up just fine with no errors and upo to date drivers in Device Manager and WD Utilities
>It shows up in Disk Management but without a drive letter
>Add a drive letter, it shows up
>Hey, this happened to three other drives I've been keeping around to get the data professionally extracted
>Load them up, add drive letters, they all work again
Holy shit I just regained files I lost years ago due to a little trial and error why did that take so long for me to figure out when I can play all day on the bios and bootup screens without fear of causing errors
Idk man life's trippy that way
Hey, you got there in the end without begging on /g/. That's a win.
It's a windows feature to stop ransomware or users from getting to your files
>windows users
>ordering pizza one time a few years ago on laptop
>something about the site or internet erupted a rage in me
>tard slap the laptop
>bluescreen
>begin to panic
>shut down
>try turning on again
>beeping noise and no drive detected
>I figure I fucked the HDD, platters stuck to reading head
>gigglybites of years worth of images and media and shit gone
>don't want it professionally seen too as I was way too broke for that shit
>it sits on my desk for around 2 years until I pluck up the courage to try opening it very quickly to release the 'stiction' and make it work again
>while plugged in via USB adapter, I decide first to just give it a knock on the side and see if it'll spin up
>it fucking does
>immediately plug back in original host laptop and copy all my shit off
>drive still works but shows errors and bad sectors
I don't slap my shit like a retard anymore and I certainly will never have a spinning HDD as a boot drive and will always keep at least 2 identical backups of all my information.
>>62008991
>ordering pizza
>something about the site or internet erupted a rage in me
Either subtle meme implementation or actual autism.
>>62008991
Made me laugh man. Many thanks.