India, June 19 -- What would you do if everything you had saved for 30 years - photos, work files, personal memories - suddenly became unreachable? This is the reality for one Windows 11 user who put their faith in Microsoft's OneDrive, only to find themselves locked out of their own digital life.

The Reddit user's story began with a simple goal: move files from several old hard drives onto a new, larger one. To make the process easier, they decided to use OneDrive as a temporary storage space. All their files, including irreplaceable photos and important documents, were uploaded to the cloud. Once the uploads were complete, the old drives were wiped clean, with the plan to download everything onto the new drive.

But before that final s...