Day before yesterday, i lost all data from my computer that i saved by last 5/6 years! How? I was using this tool called GParted on Ubuntu to add some free space on existing drive. That wasn’t logical at all, but why i had curiosity? if you can do that in Vista or XP then why can’t you do the same on Linux. There was a solution, that you copy the existing drive to an unallocated space and then partition the original drive and then add the space and later get the files back from where you copied files to. Instead of doing that, unintentionally, i clicked on “partition table” and clicked on “Apply” when it clearly says “this will erase ALL the data from your /dev/sda” drive! I don’t know maybe i was drunk or something….i read it! That was all my fault. No blame to anyone.

Then what happened? My whole drive became “Unallocated” – meaning i broke the whole partition of the HD. I stared at the screen for at least 2 minutes, what? that means i lost all the data? Maybe, if i tried i could have recovered some data…but then waited and i thought what i lost from my computer…..

I had, important documents, my projects! tools, Music, tutorials etc….

Now, let me tell you why i said “Web is my computer“

Documents:: I saved most of the important documents on Google Docs. Documents that i couldn’t upload for limit on Google docs, i uploaded them on Windows Live SkyDrive. Same goes for Pictures, my all memorable pictures are saved on SkyDrive.

My projects:: Most of them are stored on remote servers. Just needed to get the FTP/SFTPs access info that i saved on Gmail.

Tools: As i’m a linux user, i didn’t worry about any saved softwares or anything. Just reinstalled Ubuntu and used Synaptic or command prompt to get all the software i used. But some tool like Tweetdeck where i had columns of groups? yes, thankfully i had account on tweetdeck where i synchronized my columns. Just used the accounts and got all columns back

Music:: Unfortunately, i dint save them anywhere. There were around 10 Gb music in my HD, this is one think that made me upset cuz i had my all favorite musics. But again, it doesn’t let me worry that much when i think that i can listen to music online from Internet radio channel like radiodhaka.net. Plus i can get these songs from my friends, of course

Tutorials/Links:: My twitter/Friendfeed and bookmarking tools are there to save my important links. And when i get something interesting i Favorite them on twitter which is kinda like special bookmark for me  There wasn’t any worries for my important links.

Ok….just spent 2/3 hrs to get all these downloaded and updated. Other then that, i actually didn’t loss anything big.

Lesson learned? Do stuff more on web, save them online…..there are lots of tools to do that. Such as, DropBox, SkyDrive, Box…etc. But personally, im waiting for Google’s GDrive. Probably it will come out with Google Chrome OS? i’m not sure but i’m preparing myself for Google Chrome OS, what about you?

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