Backup Software in general

I am writing this opinion specifically to mirror my experience with Windows XP, but much of what I have penned should still be relevant for many other systems, particularly in the Windows 9x family. Out of all the things you CAN do with a computer, backing "your stuff" up, as the makers of ZIP drives will insist on calling it, is probably the least sexy, and therefore the least likely to get done, particularly in a domestic environment. After all, I'll ONLY be glad I did, IF the hard disk gets corrupted or some other calamity befalls me, and according to the man in PC World, this never happens, particularly to people who have shelled out ...

If only… How many times have you said that? If only I hadn’t sent that email without thinking more carefully about what I wanted to say. If only I hadn’t installed that innocuous piece of software that’s now screwed up my machine. If only I had backed up the data on my machine before it got stolen. That last one happened to me. Actually, in my case I was relatively lucky. I had backed up the vital files to a server at work two weeks before but I still lost a lost of irreplaceable stuff. It made me think carefully about being more diligent in future. But, how to back up? My hard drive is ...

There is a great way to back up your system, and it's called Drive Image. It's probably the fastest and easiest way to backup your entire C: drive with all your desk top settings Internet settings and programs. When things go wrong and Windows starts behaving badly all you have to do is restore your last backup and you're up and running, you just click one button type yes and sit back and wait. If things go tragically wrong and you can't even get into Windows, no problem, you just insert the rescue disk in the floppy drive and reboot. It's so simple and gets you out of a lot of problems and more importantly gets you up and running quickly. ...