Fiddled with the partition map on an 8600 years ago in the Rhapsody beta days. Mucked it up. Kinda bad since it had my research on it.
No worries, I had not one but two backups. Reformat away!
Pop the Zip disk in... *click click click* Damn.
Hook up SCSI Sun workstation disk (built like a tank). All is good.
Copy over a bunch of stuff, realize I have to hand-check everything, it's 10pm, I haven't had dinner, and I'm exhausted. I stop the copy of my dissertation research in *mid-drag*, and go home.
Came back to the head bouncing off the platter. A professional recovery service said it was utterly and completely dead.
Lost 18 months of work that way. Oopsie.
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