Just after another hard drive crash was reported...sorry about your loss.
We recently had a windows crash on our W7 laptop.
I can't encourage you enough to read Andy Rathbone, who wrote many of the Windows for Dummies books.
Google him, there are two or three very helpful white papers on this simple stuff that many folks simply avoid until it's too late!!!
Do all three of the following:
System repair dic
System recovery disc
System Image (on discs or portable HD)
The system image will copy your data files, too, but I back up mine separately anyway.
All this takes maybe an hour a week.
We recently had a windows crash on our W7 laptop.
I can't encourage you enough to read Andy Rathbone, who wrote many of the Windows for Dummies books.
Google him, there are two or three very helpful white papers on this simple stuff that many folks simply avoid until it's too late!!!
Do all three of the following:
System repair dic
System recovery disc
System Image (on discs or portable HD)
The system image will copy your data files, too, but I back up mine separately anyway.
All this takes maybe an hour a week.
). He thought his HD had failed. The Apple Store was NO help. He got an incorrect replacement HD, then got the right one. Still didn't work. Finally traced it down to the ribbon cable. Took about a month with all the Store nonsense. They were NO help. His comment: "A lot of idiots walking around playing with their phones, only one or two guys in help who didn't know the meaning of the word, didn't bother putting my data into their database, just stupid people all over." And that was on one of his GOOD days AFTER he fixed it, himself and with the help of a non-Apple Store thrid party repair shop. You know, the one I told him to go to first!