Epic fail

That email is full of Winz though(t),

Oh for fucks sake, I just went to install ubuntu on my laptop, was clicking through letting it do it's thing and it's wiped my external hdd and installed on that...

Had about 4 years of my sisters pictures on it..

thats what you get when you use african windows...

So you didn't make a new partition and install it in there? Nice.

African windows ftw

One of the key reasons for reinstalling was just having one clean install. I had backed everything up after all. Fuck!

was it all backed up on to the external hard-drive? :S

Check yo drives befo' yo' wreck yo' drives.

Yes, it's the same size as my actual hard drive which threw me. Can't work out how to format the external HD now, doesn't show up when I use my windows install and I can't format it with an old windows disk because its USB.

Christ almighty!

You may still be able to recover the photos. There are hundreds of app's you can try.

Yes, it's the same size as my actual hard drive which threw me. Can't work out how to format the external HD now, doesn't show up when I use my windows install and I can't format it with an old windows disk because its USB.

Christ almighty!

Definitely! Don't format the external HDD just yet!

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Trying, can't even seem to get at the drive at the minute. Really like the look of ubuntu at least.

I used this before:

http://www.cardrecovery.com/download.asp

There's many applications like http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

Praise the lord, finally found one that can handle it. Might be OK!

I only have a laptop with windows on it because of work. I haven't bothered dual booting my PC because Ubuntu fits my personal needs. Also as far as I know it's safe from any viruses.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

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Praise the lord, finally found one that can handle it. Might be OK!

Wasn't freeware after all and the licence costs a fortune, can't find any others that work. WANK

Daily Mirror, yesterday:

One of the big travel hits of 2011 will be Tunisia, with several new charter flights and great new hotels, especially Djerba, with its fantastic beaches and spas. Stay at: Airtours offers seven nights at the four-star all-inclusive Eden Star in Zarzis from £499pp

http://www.mirror.co.uk/advice/travel/news/2011/01/16/holiday-hotspots-for-2011-115875-22853793/

Home Delivery Network Ltd.

Fail on all counts. Home - nah...what they do is drive up to your house, and drop a card and leg it back to the van, meaning you go to their depot. Delivery - see above. Network - that would suggest some level of collective awareness and team working, a centralised management service that knows the wherabouts of the consigments under it's charge...

Nah. I go to the depot, to be told my parcel is in a cage about to be shipped back to the sender, because I didn't pick it up in time - I explain the reason that I did not pick it up is that the card said I couldn't until after Christmas and New Year, based on this being their 'busy period'

Tried to re-arrange delivery via website, it didn't recognise the despatch reference number - I called up to re-arrange delivery, didn't take reference number - FINALLY I got through their ridiculously convoluted call system (which offered me seemingly every date until the end of time for re-delivery) before I got the chance to specify PICK UP FROM DEPOT!!

I dutifully arrived at depot on Tuesday eve this week to be told that my parcel was in a cage awaiting return - they took my card (with reference number), took my mobile number and said they would call me the next day.

They didn't call.

I now check the original email I received from Dolphin Music with the consigment reference number, check this online to find that my parcel has been sent back.

I've just emailed Dolphin Music thus:

*Hi

Reference this parcel 8H44D9423931A - because HDNL are completely and utterly totally fucking batshit incompetent fucktards of the highest order, they have returned it to you, rather than re-deliver it to me (this is seemingly beyond their comprehension)

I would be ever so grateful if when re-sending my parcel to me, you opt to use the mid-Eighteenth century American Mid West Pony Express service, as this will undoubtedly make it's way to me in faster time than HDNL. Failing that, put it round the neck of a fucking pigeon.

Yours

Eightball
*

Ball of 8, you have rep.

is that an American version?

Trying, can't even seem to get at the drive at the minute. Really like the look of ubuntu at least.

If the Ubuntu has installed on your picture drive then stop using it for God's sake. Every time it writes to the OS drive it will be writing over your pictures.

To be honest, if the installer has formatted the drive and then put a whole OS on top of it, then a lot of your pics may well be gone already.

Turn off the PC, unplug the drive and take it to a recovery specialist. Now.

^^Yep. Though apparently it's supposed to be outstanding.

Remember that American IT Crowd pilot, worst. show. ever.

^ Fuck me, the English version was bad enough