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Regular readers of this blog know I’m always mentioning how important it is to create regular backups of your Windows PC or Mac.
After all, always having a recent backup of your machine’s hard drive or SSD on hand is the very best “insurance” you can have against a catastrophic drive failure or a crippling virus infection.
But there’s one important point that I probably don’t stress nearly as much as I should…
I’m sure you’re aware that fires and other disasters destroy numerous homes and businesses across the country every year.
The total amount of property damage caused by these catastrophes boggles the mind, but in most cases insurance coverage helps the people affected at least rebuild their homes and businesses so they can move on with their lives.
Unfortunately, many families lose things that are even more precious to them than the structures they live and work in: All of their precious family photos and other irreplaceable documents. [Read more…]
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Question from Kendra: Hi Rick. I really love your blog, especially the section where you answer questions from your readers.
If you don’t mind I’d like to ask a question of my own.
Back in early 2018 the tech guy I used at the time installed a Crucial 250GB SSD in my Dell laptop and it really made it run a lot faster.
I recently read on another site that all SSDs wear out over time because they can only be written to a certain number of times.
That has me sort of worried because this drive is now four years old and I have a lot of personal files on it that I don’t want to lose.
My question is do you think this drive is likely to fail at some time in the near future? [Read more…]
If you’ve been using computers for a while you probably know that a hard drive or SSD failure, a horrible virus infection or some other catastrophic event can result in data loss.
If that ever happens you, you’ll need to be able to restore the drive’s contents from a backup.
The question is, which backup software should you use to create your backups?
While there are many good commercial backup software programs available (some of which are free), Windows 11 has an excellent backup tool already built-in to the operating system. [Read more…]
Most people use their computers day in and day out, and chances are you do as well.
Do you ever think about what would happen if a hard drive crash or other disaster wiped away all of their precious files?