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    [โ€“] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Man, when I first messed around with Linux I hosed the MBR more times than I can remember. Either through Windows smashing it with an update, or my dumb ass doing stupid shit in gparted.

    Pretty sure I was able to recover the important files somehow, but my parents banished me to the old family desktop for that pretty quick.

    [โ€“] mholiv@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

    Me too. Lol. It was almost a right of passage for people at the time.