Just out of interest.. was your brothers account on Steemit somewhat big already? If he had the password stored on the hard drive, there should be ways to recover material from the computer, depending on what was wrong with it of course.
Still for rest of the post, I'm happy for pizza, cake and gaming :)
Thanks for the suggestion @apsu! The account wasn't very big at all yet, so there wasn't much harm done, besides it being his preferred account name. If he would have lived a bit closer, I would have asked my boyfriend to help him out in recovering the hard drive information, but it's not really an option right now.
I'm happy for pizza, cake and gaming aswell :D
Well luckily you can always create a new account :) Hope your brother manages well, I once had to learn how to recover data from a hard drive because there was one major f*** up and I had to recover photos from few years.
Didn't get them all but most of them, so I was happy :)
Hopefully he didn't lose anything else important.
Pff yeah, I remember having to recover my photos after my pc died on me. I managed to recover a couple, but not all of them.
I don't think he lost a lot of other things. Atleast not as far as I know :-)
That's a real shame :(
I've tried to actively backup photos OR make them as paper copies to prevent them being completely lost as easy in the future.
Yeah it is. Luckily I always edited the best ones and posted them on my Deviantart page, so they weren't lost. I also had a backup of quite a lot of them, but there was a period in which I was too lazy on the backup thing, so yeah... guess you learn by example!
I now back them up and as long as I haven't done that, I keep them on both my PC and the SD cards.