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Recently i sent my pc to a shop, i needed to have my OS moved to a new SSD, i specifically said i want ALL of my shit to be there when i come back, just got it back yesterday...

 

IT DOESNT EVEN HAVE CHROME! EVERYTHING IS GONE, LITERALLY MY ENTIRE LIFE! 

 

we are going back in a few hours to talk to them... if they dont fix this shit, we are sueing them... they literally said "Ya nothings gonna be gone"

 

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That sucks man.. But status update? I hope for you that it is recoverable someway.

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Ouch... Be very careful, if you need to you might be able to recover the data with special software. DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING TO THE DRIVE, DO NOT USE THE DRIVE, DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO ANYTHING WITH IT! PUT THE RECOVERY SOFTWARE ON ANOTHER DRIVE!!!!

 

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Just ask them if they still have the HDD. They probably do.

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Woah you're gonna sue them?

What did you have on there that you can't get back?

The only thing you listed is chrome...which you can easily get, log into, and have your old settings....

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And this is why you should be fucking responsible for backing up your own data.  I don't feel anything but contempt for your own lack of responsibility and not having the foresight to have backup copies of your files.

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Ouch... Be very careful, if you need to you might be able to recover the data with special software. DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING TO THE DRIVE, DO NOT USE THE DRIVE, DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO ANYTHING WITH IT! PUT THE RECOVERY SOFTWARE ON ANOTHER DRIVE!!!!

 

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We're not talking about a failing drive or deleted data here. OP sent a pc to a shop for a new SSD and they did a clean install instead of copying his data over from the old drive. The technique you mention will not help because his data was never on the ssd to begin with.

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yeah, you're never supposed to just hand over all your data like that to an untrusted person...especially without any backups

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We're not talking about a failing drive or deleted data here. OP sent a pc to a shop for a new SSD and they did a clean install instead of copying his data over from the old drive. The technique you mention will not help because his data was never on the ssd to begin with.

I see. Still, if they happened to do something to the drive the data is on (assuming they even still have it), what I said might still work.

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Yea have fun with the sueing part.....

 

But ya that sucks but that is why you always keep backups especially if the stuff was that important.

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Why didn't you do it yourself for free?

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You mean you didn't back up your data?

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I guess the lesson to be had here is

1) backup, ALWAYS

2) do these things yourself

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Personally if I ran a pc shop. I would get people to sign a waiver saying that (yourself) or the company will backup your hard rive For a minimum couple days. If you lose people's stuff they should be liable. For example, If I send my car to the dealer and It comes back with stock rims and no stereo. Then the dealer would be in trouble. This is 2015 not 2000. If someone wipes your data they should be responsible for it.

Also alot of people have laptops and travel alot. They don't backup their data everyday. Maybe they done have time either.

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Do you still have the old HDD? Was it formatted? If you haven't overwritten it with a bunch of data already, you can run a data/partition recovery software on on it to get back "most" things.

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Personally if I ran a pc shop. I would get people to sign a waiver saying that (yourself) or the company will backup your hard rive For a minimum couple days. If you lose people's stuff they should be liable. For example, If I send my car to the dealer and It comes back with stock rims and no stereo. Then the dealer would be in trouble. This is 2015 not 2000. If someone wipes your data they should be responsible for it.

Also alot of people have laptops and travel alot. They don't backup their data everyday. Maybe they done have time either.

The shop I work at does it the other way around. You sign a waiver stating the shop isn't responsible for the data. You either have to backup the data yourself or pay to have a backup made.

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Personally if I ran a pc shop. I would get people to sign a waiver saying that (yourself) or the company will backup your hard rive For a minimum couple days. If you lose people's stuff they should be liable. For example, If I send my car to the dealer and It comes back with stock rims and no stereo. Then the dealer would be in trouble. This is 2015 not 2000. If someone wipes your data they should be responsible for it.

Also alot of people have laptops and travel alot. They don't backup their data everyday. Maybe they done have time either.

 

No no no, your hard drive, your data, your responsibility. Also the car dealership analogy is terrible.

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No no no, your hard drive, your data, your responsibility. Also the car dealership analogy is terrible.

this ... plus like @sandboarder08 said, this is 2015, who doesn't do ANY backup and leave their "entire life" (to quote OP) on one drive only???

 

with all the cloud services giving 15GB+ for free I personally have all my stuff on the cloud, 2 offline hard drives (one "off site") plus a few copies of important things on 3 different PCs ... if I lost anything important I guess that would be due to a nuclear disaster! lol

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Just out of interest, why were they moving your OS to a "new SSD"?

 

Was it previously on a HDD or an SSD? Did they give you back the old drive? If not do they still have it?

 

Edit: To weigh in on the shop responsibility debate, I don't know if the shop should be held responsible in this case (not enough info).

 

I work for a small PC service company and we are always careful with peoples data. I think to take someones (perfectly functional) drive then not return their data to them is unacceptable from a service standpoint (but probably not breaking the law in most cases).

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RiP.
But no really you should've made a backup- but I do feel for you because they did not follow instructions. Good luck on it and keep us updated. 

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