OS disc died

[vtxseal]

Hello all, I built my box back when 9.2 was out. Well I tried to update the OS and somehow killed the usb drive.
I downloaded the newest OS and plan to install soon. My question is did I just lose all of my movies that I had on the data drives, which were separate from the OS?

 

[pro lamer]

did I just lose all of my movies that I had on the data drives, which were separate from the OS?

Not unless you used encryption and lost encryption keys...

Sent from my phone

 

[SweetAndLow]

No just reinstall and upload your config if you have it.

 

[Greg_E]

Reinstall the old version that was running before the upgrade, then upload the config that you backed up before the upgrade. I've recently had a string a boot drive failures, and this has brought my two servers back each time. I save a CD of the OS that I'm currently running just for this purpose.

If you don't have your config, sometimes you can find it on the drives through a shell. And if just a few files were corrupt on the boot device, reinstalling the OS might find the config and restore by itself. (might maybe)