Hard Drive Crash and Burn

The last few days have been spent taking my Dell computer to the “Geek Squad” for a hard drive removal and replacement. A week ago I noticed that the “Boot up to Windows XP was taking longer. I finally got a message that a Windows XP file was missing or had been corrupted. I ran a diagnostic CD that came with the Dell with no luck. I thought that I might have made things worse but a Geek told me that I had not. He knows who is paying the bill. Some three hundred forty dollars later along with several hours of restoring and updating soft wear (not done yet) I am back up and running. What a lesson this has been! While I do burn CD backups for a couple of my more important programs Wendy and I lost a great deal of information including recipes, music, pictures, Word files, e-mail files to mention a few. Scott has the right idea and I do believe that the idea of storing your information through internet companies is and will become more and more the way to go. At the very least I will be backing up ALL of my files on CD. If you haven’t, do yourself a big favor and burn those CD’s now!