"Judith Latham" wrote in message
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In article , Christina Websell
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"Cheryl" wrote in message
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On 7/26/2012 8:58 AM, jmcquown wrote:
Very lucky! I've done system restores before, too. In this
instance, I got the "beep beep beep". The machine would turn on but
the monitor and other components were simply dead. (This is a
laptop). Fortunately the hard drive was still readable so they're
restoring that to a portable hard drive. I'll be able to reload some
data. Meanwhile, I've lost my contacts/address book info. Hence my
request for people to send me emails so I can add you folks back to
my contacts list.

There are also little external drive bays with USB connectors that you
can buy for cheap to restore your data to a new computer. That's
what I did. A little SATA drive bay. Worked like a charm and cheaper.

When my previous computer crashed the files were hidden in dbx files
which I couldn't access. I lost them. We should all back up but I
don't.

DH always takes a back up every month or so of all three of or computers.

He learned his lesson one Saturday Morning when he was at work and writing
a computer programme. He'd been working for about four hours when he did
something and lost the lot. He managed to retrieve some of it, remember
some of it and patch the rest. It took him three hours at work and a lot
of the weekend at home. Since then, he's backed everything. I like to
write stories and am working on my second book (not published I just enjoy
it) I back up every half hour or so. I'm more than happy to learn from his
mistake.

Judith

I am ashamed to say I have no idea how to back up. How do you do it?
I probably should do it as a matter of urgency since my computer has given
me a warning ;-)