oh schnap

[Rob Oplawar]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17702021

... proceeds to back up hard drive.

[Cortexian]

This is why you shouldn't have programs that map EVERY SINGLE key to something. Yea, thats right Autodesk, I'm talking to you >.<

The technician must have been oblivious to "Disk Recovery" software...

[Rob Oplawar]

This is why you shouldn't have programs that map EVERY SINGLE key to something. Yea, thats right Autodesk, I'm talking to you >.<
truer words were never said, lol

[Limited]

Meh this is bad, but i've seen worser cases.

Any one hear about that stock market incident? Some broker pressed litterally 1 key wrong, in yor example its more than 1. This dude perssed 1 and it cost his company BILLIONS.

It is stupid to allow things with so much control to be only 1 keypress away from total destruction.

I still dont understand how this guy reformatted it when I bet it clearly showed confirmation commands. Also the businesses backups are unreadable? they're fault.

[Agamemnon]

That's exactly why these guys should http://www.avforums.com/forums/images/smilies/rtfm.gif

[Hurrvish]

amen. almost no one reads the manual

[legionaire45]

amen. almost no one reads the manual

manuals? OH! the pretty book thingies. My cat reads them for me.

Maybe they should think about teaching the twits in charge of tech there how to use a tape backup and not screw it up. *remembers magnetto optical disks and JAZ disks*

[p0lar_bear]

It's a mistake; reading the manual has nothing to do with it, and it was more than a mistaken key press.

I've done it before on a couple of clients' computers; fortunately I always made a Ghost backup of the hard drive before I went and baleeted stuff.