Huge Mistake
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Been there before, professionally and personally.
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@pmoncho said in Huge Mistake:
@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
So let me start this off by saying if I hadn't listened to my boss first thing this morning, this mistake wouldn't have happened. but god forbid he say he was wrong.
Okay: so, Went and picked up a PC from a customer: the plan as it was said to me was
- Pick up PC
*Bring back to office, put 2 new HDD's in and pull over the information after we image it.
*take it back and install it at the site again.
So, what actually happened?
Brought the PC back, boss told me to stop, he has an idea.
Reformat one of the Hard drives we have here, on that PC and then have the FakeRAID we use rebuild the information, then test the PC to run a terminal and verify it works properly.So I added the other drive to the PC. Little did I know (nor did I check) the Optical drive was set to boot first (which is where I added this Drive to the PC ). It came up as
C:and the PC I wanted to load asC:loaded asD:so when I opened cmd and typed in
format d:and pressed enter, I wiped all of the customer data from the Drives..it wasnt until I noticed a program we don't use on aloha PC's was when I realized what I had done.
My Tuesday Fuck up in a nutshell. -- Let's all take a moment to give me shit for this colossal screw up.
we already downloaded a Software to Recover lost partitions and I have that running right now .
Sorry man.... I had a huge F'up in my career about 20 years ago. Fess up to it, fix it the best you can, eat crow, learn from it and never do it again. That is all you can do from this moment on.
From my F'up, I learned to "slow down, verify and think before hitting enter or clicking "yes""
Yeah, pretty rough. going to try fixing it with this software that's running.
But, I told him as soon as I saw what I did, took ownership because as @Obsolesce pointed out, I didn't verify what I was formatting before hitting enter. -
@black3dynamite said in Huge Mistake:
Been there before, professionally and personally.
I'm sure, and I bet that it's happened to a lot of IT People over the years..
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The software I installed was a free Trial
it wont let me actually recover anything until I pay for it...:man_facepalming_light_skin_tone:
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This is why I have a bookstack instance. I create documentation on everything I've done, how I did it and why it was done that way. Sometimes looking through what you've done allows you to organize it better in your head (at least in my case). I actually make checklists of sorts in my head just to make sure I am doing everything correctly
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We have all done stupid shit like this in our careers, and that is not really the issue here. I am worried about you passing on the blame to your boss as a maturity issue.
In no way shape or form can you blame the boss for this. It's on you 100% and that is ok because it happens ONCE or maybe twice. But you need to man up to the mistake, or else you will never grow as an IT professional. There is a reason why IT veterans like myself verify 3 or 4 times and click once. We have made the mistake before, but we learned from it.
Take ownership on this one, bud.
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@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
@pmoncho said in Huge Mistake:
@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
So let me start this off by saying if I hadn't listened to my boss first thing this morning, this mistake wouldn't have happened. but god forbid he say he was wrong.
Okay: so, Went and picked up a PC from a customer: the plan as it was said to me was
- Pick up PC
*Bring back to office, put 2 new HDD's in and pull over the information after we image it.
*take it back and install it at the site again.
So, what actually happened?
Brought the PC back, boss told me to stop, he has an idea.
Reformat one of the Hard drives we have here, on that PC and then have the FakeRAID we use rebuild the information, then test the PC to run a terminal and verify it works properly.So I added the other drive to the PC. Little did I know (nor did I check) the Optical drive was set to boot first (which is where I added this Drive to the PC ). It came up as
C:and the PC I wanted to load asC:loaded asD:so when I opened cmd and typed in
format d:and pressed enter, I wiped all of the customer data from the Drives..it wasnt until I noticed a program we don't use on aloha PC's was when I realized what I had done.
My Tuesday Fuck up in a nutshell. -- Let's all take a moment to give me shit for this colossal screw up.
we already downloaded a Software to Recover lost partitions and I have that running right now .
Sorry man.... I had a huge F'up in my career about 20 years ago. Fess up to it, fix it the best you can, eat crow, learn from it and never do it again. That is all you can do from this moment on.
From my F'up, I learned to "slow down, verify and think before hitting enter or clicking "yes""
Yeah, pretty rough. going to try fixing it with this software that's running.
But, I told him as soon as I saw what I did, took ownership because as @Obsolesce pointed out, I didn't verify what I was formatting before hitting enter.good. I see you have taken ownership of it
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@pmoncho said in Huge Mistake:
Sorry man.... I had a huge F'up in my career about 20 years ago. Fess up to it, fix it the best you can, eat crow, learn from it and never do it again. That is all you can do from this moment on.
From my F'up, I learned to "slow down, verify and think before hitting enter or clicking "yes""
Pretty much this. I was burned years ago from the result of trying to move too fast and cutting a corner. As annoying as it can be to make yourself slow down and verify, we all have to do it.
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If you are doing PC repair often, a hardware cloner can help. Back when I was doing desktops, I could clone a drive in 5-10 mins. SSDs are a fraction of that now.
I learned your same lesson and always had spare HDs that I would use to clone information. Somebody on here will talk about how this is bad for SSDs to be written over and over, and they are right to a point. However, to reach that write level is pretty fucking difficult and drives are cheap. So cover your ass by cloning especially in a situation like this.
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@IRJ said in Huge Mistake:
We have all done stupid shit like this in our careers, and that is not really the issue here. I am worried about you passing on the blame to your boss as a maturity issue.
In no way shape or form can you blame the boss for this. It's on you 100% and that is ok because it happens ONCE or maybe twice. But you need to man up to the mistake, or else you will never grow as an IT professional. There is a reason why IT veterans like myself verify 3 or 4 times and click once. We have made the mistake before, but we learned from it.
Take ownership on this one, bud.
I already took ownership of it and am Trying to fix it
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@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
@IRJ said in Huge Mistake:
We have all done stupid shit like this in our careers, and that is not really the issue here. I am worried about you passing on the blame to your boss as a maturity issue.
In no way shape or form can you blame the boss for this. It's on you 100% and that is ok because it happens ONCE or maybe twice. But you need to man up to the mistake, or else you will never grow as an IT professional. There is a reason why IT veterans like myself verify 3 or 4 times and click once. We have made the mistake before, but we learned from it.
Take ownership on this one, bud.
I already took ownership of it and am Trying to fix
try to keep in mind that not everyone has seen your posts as you've posted them and we will respond to things as we see them
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@wirestyle22 said in Huge Mistake:
@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
@IRJ said in Huge Mistake:
We have all done stupid shit like this in our careers, and that is not really the issue here. I am worried about you passing on the blame to your boss as a maturity issue.
In no way shape or form can you blame the boss for this. It's on you 100% and that is ok because it happens ONCE or maybe twice. But you need to man up to the mistake, or else you will never grow as an IT professional. There is a reason why IT veterans like myself verify 3 or 4 times and click once. We have made the mistake before, but we learned from it.
Take ownership on this one, bud.
I already took ownership of it and am Trying to fix
try to keep in mind that not everyone has seen your posts as you've posted them and we will respond to things as we see them
I see.
I added to OP -
@WrCombs We all make mistakes. Just important to learn from them and hope they don't bite you in the rear too much. Personally I wouldnt have liked boss's plan either, too much at stake to rely on suboptimal raid if I understand what he meant.
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@jmoore said in Huge Mistake:
@WrCombs We all make mistakes. Just important to learn from them and hope they don't bite you in the rear too much. Personally I wouldnt have liked boss's plan either, too much at stake to rely on suboptimal raid if I understand what he meant.
I'm guessing you did : but the idea was to format a drive to start with something brand new, and let the good Drive rebuild it .
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@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
So let me start this off by saying if I hadn't listened to my boss first thing this morning, this mistake wouldn't have happened. but god forbid he say he was wrong.
This is another way to say that "he made a mistake" and it wouldn't have happened if you had stopped it. That's true of any mistake
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@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
@IRJ said in Huge Mistake:
We have all done stupid shit like this in our careers, and that is not really the issue here. I am worried about you passing on the blame to your boss as a maturity issue.
In no way shape or form can you blame the boss for this. It's on you 100% and that is ok because it happens ONCE or maybe twice. But you need to man up to the mistake, or else you will never grow as an IT professional. There is a reason why IT veterans like myself verify 3 or 4 times and click once. We have made the mistake before, but we learned from it.
Take ownership on this one, bud.
I already took ownership of it and am Trying to fix it
You are still trying to blame your boss, in the very first fucking sentence.
@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
So let me start this off by saying if I hadn't listened to my boss first thing this morning, this mistake wouldn't have happened. but god forbid he say he was wrong.
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@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
Brought the PC back, boss told me to stop, he has an idea.
Reformat one of the Hard drives we have hereFYI... RAID overwrites everything. You never need to prep a drive to be added to a RAID array because, by definition, everything on the drive has to be wiped from the action of joining the array.
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@scottalanmiller said in Huge Mistake:
@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
Brought the PC back, boss told me to stop, he has an idea.
Reformat one of the Hard drives we have hereFYI... RAID overwrites everything. You never need to prep a drive to be added to a RAID array because, by definition, everything on the drive has to be wiped from the action of joining the array.
Fake RAID does all kinds of stupid.
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@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
So I added the other drive to the PC. Little did I know (nor did I check) the Optical drive was set to boot first (which is where I added this Drive to the PC ). It came up as
and the PC I wanted to load as loaded as 
I truly hate Windows letter naming system. It's so dumb. Both fundamentally as a way to present drives, and it's so random in how it presents them. You can never trust it.
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@JaredBusch said in Huge Mistake:
@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
@IRJ said in Huge Mistake:
We have all done stupid shit like this in our careers, and that is not really the issue here. I am worried about you passing on the blame to your boss as a maturity issue.
In no way shape or form can you blame the boss for this. It's on you 100% and that is ok because it happens ONCE or maybe twice. But you need to man up to the mistake, or else you will never grow as an IT professional. There is a reason why IT veterans like myself verify 3 or 4 times and click once. We have made the mistake before, but we learned from it.
Take ownership on this one, bud.
I already took ownership of it and am Trying to fix it
You are still trying to blame your boss, in the very first fucking sentence.
@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
So let me start this off by saying if I hadn't listened to my boss first thing this morning, this mistake wouldn't have happened. but god forbid he say he was wrong.Yeah, Cause this has every part of him being wrong as I do, because he told me to change my plan and do it his way.
My fault was not verifying what I was doing.
