subject: Don't Lose Your Data Without A Full Hard Drive Backup [print this page] I am sure you've had this happen to you, you are attempting to start your computer system, and low and behold your Windows will not start up. It is basically sitting there jammed. You find yourself needing to reformat your hard drive and then reinstall all of your programs and options. A lot of headache it is, and also very upsetting and frustrating, as you probably lost a lot of necessary documents, software and photos. Don't say that you never heard of a computer backup, we all know we should do it, even so, the majority of us just assume that a total hard drive crash or unpleasant Trojan virus could not happen to us.
We are highly recommending that you set up a computer backup drive right away and set a schedule at least one time a week to complete a data backup. Just in case you don't know, a computer backup is just when you make copies of your files and save them on another drive, cd-rw, DVD-R, online backup service, etc.
Even though you might not lose all of your data during a crash, many of your files could end up corrupt. Without having a data backup, these files would be totally lost. In the event you did indeed lose several valuable files or documents, and if you had a backup, you can just go to your hard drive backup and restore the files.
Here are our suggestions to safeguard your data and files and photos that happen to be important to you. We advise that you purchase an external hard drive, which you may connect right to your USB port. Or perhaps you can consider utilizing an online data backup service.
You will want to set up your computer backup to run automatically at least one time a week. Be sure to set this up on a night or time when you will remember to leave your personal computer on. It is easily set by going into your "Control Panel" after which clicking on the "Backup and Restore" tab. Continue with the prompts in the wizard to get your automatic hard drive backup ready to run automatically.
This is usually a easy and quick setup, one that is not overly costly, and one we recommend to everyone. Nobody wants to lose every thing due to a hard drive failure, corrupt files or computer crash. Numerous programs can just be reinstalled, however, you can't normally replace necessary documents or family photos unless you have done a full computer backup. Keep in mind, a crash can and most likely at some point will happen to you, be sure to be guarded.
