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Dumbest ways to lose your data

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When it comes down to it these "reports" are just their way of getting some free PR to drum up business, but Ontrack Data Recovery just released a list of the top ten dumbest ways that people have lost all of their files, including someone who put their hard drive in the freezer because they read on the Internet that this would fix the problem they were having, a laptop with all the blueprints for building on it that was destroyed when a steel beam in that very same building fell on top of it, and a woman who left her laptop on top of her car, and then inadvertantly backed up over it after it had slid off.