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my computer crashed and I need to back up files and restore them h
My computer crashed and I have found out that the operating system is
corrupted. I have never backed up my computer and I am not really sure how to do it. Plus I am not sure how to restore it once the operating system is reinstalled. Please help |
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If you did not back it up before it crashed, how do your expect to do it
now? If you have some techie friend, you could put in a second hard drive making your old hard drive a "slave". Then reinstall the operating system on the new drive and you should be able to recover your data from the old drive. Keep in mind that you will have to reinstall all your programs again. Now you have learned a valuable lesson. Backup - backup - backup Windows has a backup program, be it not the best in the world. The best backup is to copy your personal data to removable drives such as a ZIP drive, a CD-R or to floppies. Use two sets of disks, and alternate between them so that if a backup disk becomes corrupted, you still have a second set. Store these disk away from the computer so that a fire or theft does not get them as well as the computer. "goofygirl" wrote in message ... My computer crashed and I have found out that the operating system is corrupted. I have never backed up my computer and I am not really sure how to do it. Plus I am not sure how to restore it once the operating system is reinstalled. Please help |
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How about some specs on your system. Make, Model, and especially, size
of hard drive, and if you know, about how much free space on that drive. That, and some idea of what kind of personal files you have--lots of music or other large files? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "goofygirl" wrote in message ... My computer crashed and I have found out that the operating system is corrupted. I have never backed up my computer and I am not really sure how to do it. Plus I am not sure how to restore it once the operating system is reinstalled. Please help |
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