AUTHORS – BACK UP YOUR WIP’S
BLOGGERS – BACK UP YOUR BLOGS
EVERYONE – BACK UP YOUR DATA
Over Christmas I took my trusty Sony Vio laptop to Liverpool with me. Much of my time in Liverpool was, not surprisingly spent celebrating the festivities with family. I did, however find time to write and, as always saved my creations to my laptop’s hard drive.
On returning to London I powered up my trusty old work horse only for the machine to display an error message saying that Windows had been incorrectly shut down. I tried the usual solutions (start Windows normally and when that failed a system restore) but all to no avail. Eventually I took the laptop to a computer repairer I have used previously only to discover that the hard drive had gone to the great computer heaven in the sky where it is, no doubt now whirring away contentedly with other computer bits and bobs!
Fortunately the above story has a happy ending. Although the…
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Yes! Learned the hard way 😦
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OOPS…
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YES, yes, yes. Having just lost a hard drive, imagine my relief when I discovered my external hard drive had automatically backed up everything!!!
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PHEW! After reblogging this post, I immediately went offline and did a full backup myself Noelle…
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Thanks for the re-blog Chris. Best. Kevin
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Welcome Kevin – This message needs repeating every so often 🙂
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