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Protecting yourself from a laptop disaster - Main Contents

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They can be read in any order but it's best to read them in top down order.

Although I am fairly techy and some of this information is technical, I do try to put across the message so that just about any sensible person will understand and be able to follow the instructions without any huge difficulty or any special technical knowledge. .

Contents

Who should read these articles?

Introduction

The Laptop Disaster Scenario

What you need to do

Choosing a backup policy

What you should backup to

Introducing cloning

Choosing a hard drive

Buying a hard drive, what you need to know

Buying a hard drive, choices, choices

Buying a hard drive

Preparing the drive for use

Swapping the drives

My own backing up (hi)story

A True Confession (or: Don't let this happen to you!)

By Paul E. Coughlin
SaneThinking.com
29 May 2008

You may like to know that there may be other articles, similar to this one, here, in this category:
Laptop Owners

If no earlier date is shown above then this page began life on 29.05.2008. It was most recently updated, improved, tarted-up, sexed-up, modified, polished, or just imperceptably re-edited, due, most likely, to compulsive and unrestrained perfectionism, influenced quite possibly by a minor degree of pedantic extremism, on 01.07.2008.