Are you ready?

Are you ready?It isn't if but when....

I just spoke to another associate that had their computer hard drive crash on them. 

Everyone knows it is important to back up your computer -- Just Do It!

Make a point to have a glass of wine, a good beer or a hot cup of java and take the time to copy your important documents to an external hard drive.  They aren't that expensive these days.

One important note -- most of you store your documents in the My Documents folder but Microsoft Outlook does NOT record their email and contact data files to the My Documents folder -- learn where they are and copy them over to or use the backup utility that Outlook has with the program.

Also -- don't forget those docuemnts you may have put on your desktop and copy them over to that hard drive.

And.... better yet -- store that external hard drive off site and in a different location than your computer in the event of a major disaster like fire, flood or earthquake --

Be ready otherwise you have no one to blame but yourself when you loose everything.  Take out that insurance policy and buy that drive and prepare for the inevitable!

 

 

Make it a profitable day!

Scott Hoen

SHoen@FirstAM.com

Direct:  (714) 250-5014

Cell:  (714) 270-9607

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6 Comments on Your Hard Drive Is Going To Die!

NOV
03
2009
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Scott,

I use a USB enclosure and clone my entire laptop drive onto a spare. If the real one ever craps out, I can be completely back with operating system, applications and data in about five minutes.

Rich
5:59am • #1
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We learned our lesson the hard way! Now he who laughs last has a back up!
6:18am • #2
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Everybody knows we should do this, but very few of us do. Human nature.
11:18am • #3
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Oh, so sadly true.  Hard drives will die.  And, then you will be so very remorseful.
5:14pm • #4
NOV
04
2009
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Scott - I always heard it not if but when is your hard drive going to fail. I have made it a point to back up my important files.
9:16pm • #5
NOV
14
2009

Yes, true.  Hard Drive die and usually when you least expect it.  Thanks for the tip.  I'm probably due for a crash.  It's been two years.
5:49am • #6


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