Over the last couple of weeks, I've had someone who's laptop was stolen with lots of their work on it and another person who had a hard drive failure and lost everything 
.
You never realise how important your work and personal data is until it's gone!
I guess the key to happiness, piece of mind and no sleepless nights really is BACKING UP YOUR DATA. Despite saying it often . . . . . people still don't seem to be taking it on board.
Well I thought I'd help out with a few tips and pointers in the right direction.
Try and keep all your important data in one folder as backups will be easier to perform. ( My documents folder is a good place to start! )
Most people's laptops and desktops nowadays have a cd burner ( cd writer ) or DVD burner. Often you will get cd/dvd creating software with your computers and you can very easily create weekly backups of the " My Documents " folder and any other folders you need.
Pen drives and very large external drives are dirt cheap now and you can pick up a 320gb external hard drive for about £50 from PC World or on the web. With such a huge drive, you could organise weekly backups through Windows XP. Click here for backup instructions
If you only have a small amount of critical data, then you could use a pen drive/flash drive to keep copies of your data, as these can be picked up from about £12 for a 1gb drive.
Anyway the moral of this posting is BACKUP, BACKUP and BACKUP some more if your data is important to you and you want to keep it.
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.You never realise how important your work and personal data is until it's gone!
I guess the key to happiness, piece of mind and no sleepless nights really is BACKING UP YOUR DATA. Despite saying it often . . . . . people still don't seem to be taking it on board.
Well I thought I'd help out with a few tips and pointers in the right direction.
Try and keep all your important data in one folder as backups will be easier to perform. ( My documents folder is a good place to start! )
Most people's laptops and desktops nowadays have a cd burner ( cd writer ) or DVD burner. Often you will get cd/dvd creating software with your computers and you can very easily create weekly backups of the " My Documents " folder and any other folders you need.
Pen drives and very large external drives are dirt cheap now and you can pick up a 320gb external hard drive for about £50 from PC World or on the web. With such a huge drive, you could organise weekly backups through Windows XP. Click here for backup instructions
If you only have a small amount of critical data, then you could use a pen drive/flash drive to keep copies of your data, as these can be picked up from about £12 for a 1gb drive.
Anyway the moral of this posting is BACKUP, BACKUP and BACKUP some more if your data is important to you and you want to keep it.
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