Backup your Computer To avoid a disaster

A Timely reminder

A Timely reminder to everyone here. Computers do crash and you can lose data. After I had computer problems over the last few days, My computer crashed and would not do anything at all on Sunday night and I had not done any backup since I had assembled it last year. Silly me. So there I was looking at it and wondering if I had lost the lot!..Visions of all the work I had done lost !!...ok I was in a panic .I had visitors here on Sunday and Monday so I really could not be seen to be ignoring them..it was late Sunday night, so I left it and went to bed.

Monday I could not do anything until I return home at 5 pm. The visitors had left and I finally had a chance to look at the PC. I had built the Computer myself from parts last year 2017, I think or maybe 2016...sheesh I have no clue. I had a look at the system and I knew my hard disk drive was gone...there can be a number of reasons why hard drives fail chief among them is spike in the voltage coming through the line and if you do not have a surge protector then you can damage not only the hard drive but your motherboard and other components in your PC. The computer mortherboard was not damaged could only be a dodgy hard disk.

Tuesday I had to get new parts for the PC installed the hard drive and re-installed Windows, tested, upgrade all my drivers. Anyway it is almost back to normal now, it isWednesday night. Lucky for me I could still access parts of my damaged hard disk and copied all the undamaged files. I had saved all my important files to one folder only so it was easy to retrieve it. Whew that was lucky, I have now been thinking about a weekly backup plan, to save my most important files...

Anyway the moral of this story is do your backup of essential data you treasure like your articles and emails and contacts etc, they do not take up a lot of space but they can cause you a head ache if you lose them. Drop your essential on a 16GB USB drive and you should be good, keep it is a safe place and maybe setup a weekly schedule where you update your backed up files.

Tonight Sydney time at 9pm is the first day back on Wealthy Affiliates. For those who are expecting some comments from me, sorry lost quite a bit of my emails..so I really have no clue where I am at, I have also moved my emails off to the internet. I was using Microsoft outlook, I lost that too. I hope to catch up with the latest comments.