Windows 11 user is locked out of Microsoft account and loses 30 years of data in a cautionary tale that'll make your hair stand on end
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  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    22 days ago

    you don’t need the whole usb drive to fail. It’s enough if a sector or two went corrupt, and you won’t be able to open (or even see) a directory, or copying a file will stop in the middle. maybe files disappear too, and then at best they get recovered to FOUND.001 or such directory without path and name, maybe also just partially, or interleaved with other lost or deleted files’ fragments