
First things first what is a BACKUP.
A lot of people i get coming to my computer business go white when i speak of data backup.
They think its some mythical thing only I.T. technicians and computer geeks can do.
A Backup is quite simply a copy of your data.
A copy of your data that you can use to restore your computer incase of a fatal computer crash.
There are many ways to backup your data. Depending on the type of data you need to backup can depend
on how you do a data backup and what backup software program you will use to make your backup.
Here is a link to one of the
best backup software packages.
The price of a good data backup software far out weighs the price in lost data, computer down time and time and effort in having
to reinstall your computer.
Make your moto BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP.
The most simplest ways to make a data backup is to use windows.
Windows XP has a very simple backup mechanism anyone can use.
This way is very limited as to what you can backup, but if all you want to do is make a backup of data files like word or
excel then this way is sufficient.
How to use windows to backup your data