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One important thing any PC user should do is to back up their data. Hard disks are highly unreliable, but data is priceless.
The mastercard advertisement could be tweaked a bit to suit this topic. A new monitor, $99; an optical mouse, $24; high capacity hard disk, $179 but data lost, priceless. This article talks about different back up options that we have, and those options that are available to us currently. Also this article touches on different ways to back up a PC with the least effort. In the 90's, people used to back up their PCs using floppies which stored just over 1 MB of data. Things got shifted over to CDs, which was a big improvement as the storage space multiplied 500 fold. There were many other intermediate storage devices like tape drives and laser discs which never swooped the market like the DVDs did. DVDs stored data in Gigabytes and is the most popular form of storage today. Since DVD is the best form of storage today, this guide will give you some pointers for backing up your data. There is more than one good way of backing up data and this in just one of them. The most essential part of a backing up process would be the hardware to do so. If you already do not have a DVD writer, I would recommend a sony DVD writer, which has been proven to be the best one. You need good reliable software to backup your data. My recommendation would be Ahead's Nero which was won several awards in its category. Here are some essential pointers for backing up your data : When you are ready to back up the data, if everything is under 4.5GB, you could easily dump everything into one DVD. But if it is more than 4.5GB, you may need to use sorting methods to store your data to reduce confusion while replacing the files once you install a new OS. One way of doing it is storing all the personal files on one directory, all the songs on the other and follow the pattern. If by chance, you are just going over by a few MBs or a few hundred MBs, archiving would be a good option. I essentially recommed RAR archiving using winrar since the compression rate is high and is also reliable. Once the writing is done, make it a point to verify the data on the disk is the same as the one you have on the hard disk using the verify written files functionality in Nero. If you have any further questions regarding backing up data, please send me an email at pcs at suite101 dot com. I would be more than glad to be of some help to you...
The copyright of the article A Guide To Back-Up Your PC in PC Software/OS is owned by Abhinav Kaiser. Permission to republish A Guide To Back-Up Your PC in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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