@caranmegil @yuki2501 @thegibson that time in the 90's when I was developing a CD distribution of software, and I did it all on my workstation running SCO Unix, without backups.

Well, Windows 95 came out and I wanted to try it out so I wanted to double boot it on my system. Of course, this being Microsoft, it completely wiped the partition table on the machine.

A few months of work down the drain. And it was my fault for not taking backups.

I worked a weekend learning what I could about the partition table format and reconstructed it. I was then able to mount the filesystem and thankfully the files had not been overwritten, so I could save the work.

So yeah, it could have been worse, but I was still an idiot for causing it to happen. In fact, I was doubly an idiot, since I not only didn't take backups but I also installed Microsoft software without assuming things would go wrong.