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Your computer is going to crash, are you ready?

15 December, 2007 (13:26) | Security | By: Glen at Webstart

You know it is going to happen, that dreaded day when your computer becomes unresponsive, nothing you do can bring it back to life. Forcing a reboot is the next step but now it won’t load the operating system, the premium rate support line don’t seem to understand that you have just lost all your data and are asking you unrelated questions… aghhhhh *?()@£!

Losing all your important data - how would you feel about that? All those letters, all the emails, music downloads and what about the thousands of unique photo’s lost forever. Maybe your computer was also for work - all your client details, invoices, communications, accounts are lost and your business is really going to suffer because of it.

This example of data loss is no laughing matter, it is happening to someone right now causing immense stress and inconvienince - one day that person could be you unless you take steps to prevent it. How do you prevent it? Well, you can’t stop your computer from crashing, but you can keep your data safe by backing it up.

Online backups are fast becoming the best way to protect your data, incredibly easy to use and fully automated. One company who do this very well are Depositit, I use their backup service and recommend Depositit to our clients. The software is unbelievebly easy to setup and then you don’t even think about it again as the backups are fully automated.

Go to Depositit’s website for more details and give the system a try, they give you a 15 day money back guarantee so there is nothing to lose.

You can’t stop the crash but you can survive it!

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Comments

Comment from niknar1900
Time: December 17, 2007, 3:48 pm

What I’ve noticed with so called “crashes”, that’s it’s usually the user’s fault, rather than the computer’s. And I don’t know how many times people have told me they had to reformat and reinstall, without first taking the data off the hard drive, do they even realize that unless the hard drive itself is physically damaged that they can still get they’re files off of it? Data is still present with or without an operating system, and FAT tables can be rebuilt to restore deleted files from years back. It takes the right tools and most of all the know how to use them. Sorry for my rant, I know you’re trying to remind us to backup.

Comment from Glen at Webstart
Time: December 17, 2007, 8:04 pm

No problem with the rant niknar1900 ;) Yes, some crashes are caused by the user themselves but often in that case they are unaware of the implications of their actions. Most users don’t understand FAT in it’s technical form (just on the scales), often the best advice is for them to not do anything before a qualified person can assist them.

Comment from CCNA Discovery
Time: January 5, 2008, 12:38 am

I just keep my important files on my USB flash drive. These days you can get a 4 GB flash drive for as cheap as $10.

Comment from ChiQ Montes
Time: January 5, 2008, 1:09 am

It’s really wise to backup our files… I do it using an external hard drive.. and yes, saving back up files online is even better.. your suggestion in uploading it to depositit.com is good.. as for me, i do simple do it with my gmail account..

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