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As if I did not have enough recently, yesterday night my computer failed. To be more precise it was the hard drive. Why I am saying this? Because I know there are many people out there who expose themselves to a big danger of loosing all of the data. I am upset but not so much. I always run 2 HDD – one primary and a second one for data back up and operating system and programs mirror image. So after the failure I just swapped the drives and was up and running in 30 min without data loss. Granted, I had to update some of the programs (antivirus, spybot, windows) but it was nothing.
A new 160 GB drive is coming in 2 days time so mirror image software will be used again.
For everybody out there who does not do back ups – see above. It is a proof the s…….t happens so better be prepared. And with today’s HDD prices, both internal and external there is no reason not to have back up. Oh, and I also back up just data to an external drive as well. And photos to DVD for viewing, distribution, archiving.
Hope this experience will help some of you folks avoid disasters in the future.
A new 160 GB drive is coming in 2 days time so mirror image software will be used again.
For everybody out there who does not do back ups – see above. It is a proof the s…….t happens so better be prepared. And with today’s HDD prices, both internal and external there is no reason not to have back up. Oh, and I also back up just data to an external drive as well. And photos to DVD for viewing, distribution, archiving.
Hope this experience will help some of you folks avoid disasters in the future.