Appreciate your comments and your help. When I get home tonight, I'll try some stuff out. Fortunately that's my home computer, so if I do something terrible it's not a disaster. This one, I won't be so free messing around with! Though i may take a few baby steps.
BTW, one thing interests me -- everybody says to back up your comuter religiously, but all the backup software programs seem to have disappeared. Does everybody just use Microsoft Backup (which on my system is a 1998 program--is there really nothing newer and better)?
Fortunately I have two drives on my computer, so I can copy stuff from my C to my D drive, though i probably should do something better. And if my whole computer fries in a fire, I'm history.
But my Zip drive is only 100 meg, so while I back up some critical files to it, and even take a disk home when I get around to it (like every few months), that's pretty meagre. Don't have a tape drive or a RW, and even if I did have a CD RW, how do you back up an entire 5 gig hard drive to CDs?
Has this been discussed on the thread before? Are there any really good easy ways for dummies to back up modern computers with their huge file capacities? |
