"TMED: "My hard drive crashed"..."Did you backup? "What mean backup?"

Looking back from the front of the classroom I see rows upon rows of black, silver and white Mac laptops and Mike's Thinkpad wannabe Mac.

With many of us using laptops and not printed notes be prepared to lose all your data! No Mac or PC is immune to a hard drive crash. This can happen at anytime or worse just before your MOD 7 exam--not to cause widespread panic.

Most of us know to backup our data, but we don't do it or don't do it often enough. To prevent loss of data, the most simple and least expensive method is to buy a external hard drive or large USB thumb drive and back up your most important music, photos, documents and of course lecture notes. Alternatively, you can backup everything up with backup software, but that takes an excessive amount of time.

Most laptops have hidden partitions, areas on the hard drive with the operating system and key programs that you can use to recover you computer, but you are responsible for your own files.

So if you have not done so already, please cozy up to your computer and back everything up.

Future Shop has a large selection USB drives and external hard drives. Also check out Campus Computer Store's selection of external hard drives and USB drives

I am not receiving any commission or benefit from the above businesses, although I think I should.

(Originally posted on fife2012.ca by James Z.)