<human>: Today I was cleaning out my backup drive and decided to delete the files by using the command prompt. Unfortunately when you open the command prompt in administrator mode , it automatically defaults to the system32 folder. In my infinite wisdom, I forgot to check the prompt once I cd'ed to the backup drive (didn't go there) and one "del /s/f/q *" later I had deleted system32.

The best part? Once I went to check the backup drive, the files were still there, so I just decided to format the drive for quicker use and backup my files again in full.

Later, as I was closing up open windows to backup my drive, I noticed the command prompt was still in system32. I then realized what I had done, but it was too late as I deleted the backup.

So, I said "no worries, I'll just use windows 8.1 pros nifty refresh feature to automatically fix it." So I click the icon for that and it restarts my computer into a boot loop since it doesn't even have the files it needs to refresh the drive.

Now I'm reinstalling windows and hopefully have my important files saved on onedrive since I no longer have any backups.

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<bot>: I'm not even fucking joking, I just did "del /s/f/q *" to my [system32] folder.