Opinion Crash notice
Always back up your computer. Ideally,you should get an external drive and regular copy data on to it.
-
Share -
-
-
Last month,my desktop finally gave way after seven years of selfless service. Though I had been preparing for my computers eventual retirement,the sudden crash caught me unawares.
I realised I hadnt backed my stuff for the past few months. While I was okay with losing the 20 GB of songs I had on my hard drive,I had no way of replacing my photographs as I had erased the memory of my digital SLR many times over.
But my friendly neighbourhood computer guy came to the rescue. Thankfully,most of my photos were on a 160GB drive I had installed a couple of years back. So after I bought a new PC,he could connect this hard drive to the new computer and copy all the data. I was lucky,but still couldnt recover data on my C drive.
There is an important lesson for all of us in this: always back up your computer. Ideally,you should get an external drive and regular copy data on to it. There are also software that do this for you at regular intervals. In fact,most external drives with 1TB storage and above now come with bundled software that work on both Macs and PCs.
Alternatively,you can back up all your data online. But this can become a costly proposition beyond a point as most websites charge you for using storage after a small limit. Plus,this is not a practical option if your broadband connection is not fast enough.
The other option you have is to use the backup software on most new PCs and laptops. Some laptops even have backup buttons which saves all data in a jiffy if you sense something is going wrong. But still,it is safe to avoid saving important data in you C drive all this is the one that is always affected by crashes.
So now on,prepare for a crash well in advance.
-
Share
-
-
-
Share
