• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    10 hours ago

    THIS! RIGHT HERE!

    When I was young and naive about digital things, I had NO BACKUP

    One day I got a new laptop. Yay me. Transfer all the data from my old hard drive using some jank-ass local network setup because young and dumb about tech still.

    Six months go by, and my new laptop shit itself. Still no idea what happened, but it BSODd and a factory reset got it working again.

    I still had my old laptop, so after about a week of searching on forums and reading everything I could find about how to build a pc, how laptop internals compare, data transfers, and literally anything I could so I could pull the old hard drive out without damaging anything and get at least some of my data without issue…

    I lost 6 months of new stuff on a much more capable laptop, but it’s better than losing EVERYTHING.