David Fiske Affiliate Marketing & Web Development

After 2 years of loyal service, Windows has started to fall over itself on my PC. Running Scandisk after every reset is a tad annoying to say the least.

I’ve backed up everything onto another hard drive (75 GB of virtual tat, work, loads of those ‘free reports’ and other bits and bobs). I’m surprised at how much I’ve accumulated though I have a habit of creating a new folder called ‘sort me’ and throwing everything in there. I do believe there’s around 11 generations of ‘to sort’ folders inside each other.
 
When I build my PCs, I usually put 2 hard drives in there. An xcopy MSDOS command can is written that backs up all the documents from hard drive 1 to hard drive 2. It’s then a case of remembering to run it. That’s using old school IDE hard drives. I do believe then new SATA standard allows an automated backup facility from one drive to another. I think.

Anyhow, I'm hoping that a fresh installation of Windows is all it needs to feel right as rain again. However, I’m not so sure it is so it may have to result in an unexpected investment in a new rig. I’m hoping it’s not going to result in that though.

The morale of this tale is to backup your data regularly. It’s a bore, it’s often the last thing you do but what would you do if you lost your entire web deign work tomorrow? Furthermore, backup the backup once in a while. You never know when the backup of the backup will come in handy!