[AT] Here we go again

[David Bruce]

Or you could have something like what happened to me a month ago.  My 
system died completely - it was a motherboard failure so new computer 
time (7 years with the old one was better than I expected).  The HD was 
heading toward trouble as well - my data was backed up in a couple 
places so in that area I was protected.  I moved that HD to an external 
enclosure and copied pretty much all the data on that drive to the new 
computer.
I'm keeping that drive in the enclosure for a little longer just to be 
sure I have everything.
One thing that was easy was moving my bookmarks and saved emails to the 
new machine.  I use Seamonkey (basically Firefox and Thunderbird 
combined into one program.  I keep a current backup (I keep a couple 
backups on a flash drive so I can copy that data to my other machines as 
well) of the internet related things with another piece of free software 
- Mozbackup.  Much easier that trying to deal with IE and Outlook 
Express for the same operations.
David
NW NC

Bob McNitt wrote:
>> Larry,  store all those pics on CD NOW
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> Larry -
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> If I could add to Charlie's advice about storing your images on CD (or DVD) ...Something I got in the habit of several years ago might also be worth consideration.
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> I purchased a 20-gig external hard drive that I store backups of just about ALL of my critical or important programs & data on. I also usually keep images & videos on either CDs or DVDs to save space and make them readily available. 
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> Case in point happened just yesterday when the hard drive on my #1 Dell desktop PC crashed. I already have a new replacement hard drive on the way (www.geeks.com). Once I install it and the OS, I can copy all my external folders & files to it and thus get back to a semblance of normalcy without losing hardly anything.
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> We seldom consider what happens when a hard drive crashes, but it can be devastating to lose all the data that may have taken years to accumulate, and much of it -- like images -- will be gone forever unless there's a separate backup storage system in place.
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> Bob
> In snow upstate NY
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