Originally Posted by Martyn
If not, why not?!
How would you feel if your windows died, or your harddisk decided to corrupt itself one day randomly?
My XP was installed in 2003 and has been 100% stable ever since, I have tons of programs installed, and over 150GB of data.
Yesterday my harddisk decided to corrupt itself and now windows wont boot.
What would you do if it was you, and you didnt have a back up of all of those mp3s you love, all those pictures/photos you could never replace?
Thankfully, I planned for this and have all my data on a seperate drive, (and dvd backups) so I can install windows on a new drive, and still have all my data.
Its surprising how many people dont have backups of their most important data, or never think to do it.
I had it drummed into me when I worked as a computer engineer, it was always hard not to laugh when when seeing a managers face when going to a site to fix a system, ask for the backup to restore the data and to be told they hadnt done one!
You have been warned!!
Well,the most importents things i have back up off.
But as i have done before it the hdd craches and i have a spare disk (as i have) i will install win on that then connect the hdd that craches as disk nr 2 then i just get the files out.
some times i also format the disk but also then i have to install win on an other disk the i use a recovery tool and get it all out!
thats the easiest way