So if it was to hit you tonight, would you have backup copies somewhere? I have had a backup harddrive before, but it got infected, so I would really suggest making cd's of your most precious pictures. I have read several articles in the last year of people that actually reformat their computers every six months.
So....To MOM: back up all of your genealogy stuff immediately! Jan: Don't take a chance on a backup hard drive. Start pulling your pictures off and putting them on DVD. Archive all of your documents on DVD or CD. I know that my DVD writer actually has a command that allows me to backup everything onto DVD. Spend the time to figure yours out and use it.
- So my plan:
- Keep a much more organized computer
- pull off my documents and store them on cd or dvd
- only keep documents on my computer that I don't mind losing
- Expect and be prepared to reformat my computer every 6 months or less.
Once the error messages start popping up it is an indication that Microsoft is crashing. After I downloaded Microsoft Office 2007 I started having trouble. I had a professor at school that had the same problem. My laptop crashed on Thursday, I hope I haven't lost the hard drive data on that or I'm going to be in real trouble.
I'm not very happy camper tonight.
jlw
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yikes---I will be talking to Edwin tonight---
yes I have to make an appointment to speak to him
Did you try putting your hard drive in another computer as a slave? Was the file structure totally gone?
Edwin
I am going to rethink how I use the computer. Between the kids and I, we are everywhere on the net. Music sites, game sites email, blogs... I was talking to the guy at IT today and viruses are coming in through pictures, movies, email....and the list goes on. I am going to backup and pull my stuff off the computer after use so that I can reformat on a more regular basis.
jlw
I did not. Because it had a virus, my IT people would not touch it, they would only reformat it for me. So...I would have had to take it into CompUSA or the likes. Too much money.
jlw
i looked in my windows for dummies books and couldn't even find the word reformat in the index. whats up with that?
When you reformat your computer you clear everything off and replace it with the factory settings. So it is very important that you keep all of your original disks and the serial and authorization numbers. If you did not get disks with your computer, then you should be able to burn recovery files. I'm not sure where they are, but that is what I had to do with mine. I did it when I first got my computer.
I figured out how to backup using my DVD burner. It was quite easy. Embarrassingly easy. A dvd holds 4.7 gigabytes, so it will hold hundreds of pictures and other files.
I was able to get all of my info backed up off of my laptop and it fit on just 5 dvds. Cool.
i am soooo scared about my computer crashing again last time i lost all my pictures i am getting a external hard drive ;)
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