What would you do?
By mirage108
@mirage108 (3402)
United States
March 7, 2007 3:29pm CST
Well 2 days ago my laptop crashed and I have just finished re-installing everything for the most part. the keyboard drivers craped out and I had no access at all to revert back to a previous restore point.
I was lucky as I was able to save everything and had no data loss just a lot of work reinstalling everything.
I am now doing regular backup's and have located a free backup program that I will now be using on a regular basis.
What would you do? would you just wipe everything clean would you loose all your data?
1 response
@n00bmanEXE (19)
• United States
7 Mar 07
You could backup to the internet if you have a fast enough internet connection.
Other alternatives include:
-Backing up to another computer on your network
-Using RAID 1 (probably not on a laptop)
-Using some kind of portable media (such as USB drive, CD, DVD)
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
7 Mar 07
I have 4 computers here on a home network. What I did was reinstall xp on a seperate directory other than the main windows directory then used my network and backed up all my stuff to another computer then did a clean install.
@n00bmanEXE (19)
• United States
7 Mar 07
I never really had this problem myself, so I cant recommend something firsthand, but check Download.com for some backup software. They have programs that automatically back up your computer. Also, if you buy a external hard drive, most of them come with backup software.
Good luck!
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
8 Mar 07
all ready done I will posting a review about this on one of my blogs after I fully check it out and get some screen shots. to post there also.
