Tell us your worst data disaster and win Memina's 2GB Pocket Rocket USB flash drive

Not sure how this happened, but it's been a couple of months since we've last had a contest. We're going to make that up to you today. We've successfully harrassed Memina into offering up one of their new 2GB Pocket Rocket USB flash drives (you know, the ones with the gold connectors and the super fast read/write speeds?) to give away.

Here's the drill: Regale us with your most horrific, debilitating tale of data disaster. You know, like the time your PC crashed and you ended up losing your senior thesis because you were so hepped up on Vivarin that you completely blanked out on hitting save? (We swear that never happened to us. We were on Provigil.) Whoever manages to evoke the most pathos in us wins the Pocket Rocket (and this has to be a work of non-fiction, you dig?). You've got until noon EST on Sunday.

P.S. - This contest is open to everybody, not just residents of the United States. We promised we'd have a contest that anyone could win, didn't we?

UPDATE: Contest officially closed! Give us a few days to read all of these over and we'll announce a winner in a few days.