Automatically backup your hard drive data Guide here. Hard Drives dying is fairly common (happened to my laptop hard drive over christmas), so make sure you have a backup somewhere (on a seperate HD, CD, DVD, Internet etc).
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ooh i've tried what they suggest for daily/weekly/monthly backups, the only problem is that if you backup 4 gigs of data, you end up with 3 copies of it, quickly taking up 12gigs. I would have thought there would be a cleverer way of doing it whereby you have one main monthly backup, then it makes daily backups of the files that have changed, thus you'd only end up with the backup taking 4 gigs instead of 12. Anyway, at least this works - you could also get 2 external USB hard drives, then if one decides to be unreliable you have the other to fall back on.
I've set my main pc (With all the data on) to backup to my laptop hard drive - and i generally don't keep any data on the laptop, so it doesn't need backing up.
Mat's hard drive died the other day - just 20 odd days after it's 3 year warranty ran out, and like 3 years and 2 days after it was ordered.
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