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>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
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Idk man life's trippy that way
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Hey, you got there in the end without begging on /g/. That's a win.
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It's a windows feature to stop ransomware or users from getting to your files
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>windows users
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>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.
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>>62008991
>ordering pizza
>something about the site or internet erupted a rage in me
Either subtle meme implementation or actual autism.
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>>62008991
Made me laugh man. Many thanks.
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