I came home today and started to work on my Desktop PC (the PC not the Mac Mini). It had been a bit sluggish lately and had locked up several times when trying to burn a DVD. Today it ran for 45 minutes then locked up. I never could get it to completely restart. I got into Safe Mode (hit that F8 key when you start up) and tried restoring to Monday's setup. It did the restore OK then locked up. I realized at this time that my last back up was August 17. So I pulled the hard drive from the PC and took it to my Bench PC and installed the Hard Drive. I made DVD backups and attached my external Hard Drive and made backups. I found my Outlook info and backed it up also. I then put the Hard Drive back in and it wouldn't start up at all. Lastly I took out the last memory chip I had installed (I had 640MB memory so I dropped back to 512MB). The PC immediately started up and here I am typing away.
I copied all my backups to my laptop so now I'm backed up everywhere (whew relief). I tell you all this faithful reader so that you will make sure your data is backed up today. If you have Outlook data do the File, Import/Export to a backup device of your entire Personal Folder. I'm just going to have to backup every other day instead of once a week.
My mom turned 80 today, so we are off to Ohio Friday to belatedly celebrate with my folks. See you next week!
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