[AT] Update - Laptop hard drive

[Henry Miller]

Buy two (or more)  of those drives, it isn't unheard of for one to fail while trying to recover something from it. You want a drive elsewhere as well in case your house burns down or something equally drastic. 

On November 22, 2015 12:40:58 PM CST, Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
>Just wanted to give an update on my laptop hard drive. I ran every
>check 
>suggested, and my hard drive checked out fine, so I decided to wipe the
>
>drive and reinstall windows 7, its much snappier now.  I have all my 
>files backed up to Carbonite, so I thought reinstalling would be a
>snap. 
>I double checked to make sure all my important files were there, and 
>backed up, and they were.
>I wiped the drive on the 17th, and reinstalled Windows on the morning
>of 
>the 18th, and then started my back up. As of today I am only at 61% on 
>the backup, with pictures being the big hang up. I took Charlie Hills' 
>advice and bought a 2TB external hard drive, and will use that for my 
>back ups from now on. It will pay for itself in less than a year, and I
>
>will be able to back up my computer, and my 2 daughters computers on
>one 
>drive. I have to believe USB 3.0 is faster that my download speed.
>
>Mike M
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