BACK UP MADE EASY
The Need For Backup

BACKUP MADE EASY
* The Need for Backup * I truly hope that what you read below never happens to you. It was Sunday, Sunday 23 November 2003 at 4:00 p.m. to be precise. I was in the final months of Graduate Business School, working on a paper for the following week. Two chapters of a research project were finished and stashed on my hard drive - no hard copies, just bits and bytes created over three months. I punched away at the keyboard. Suddenly, my notebook slowed dramatically. I started closing applications in the hope of increasing speed. I wasn't too worried - it had happened before. My usual fix was to reboot. Whilst this took place I sauntered off to fix myself a sandwich - oblivious of the impending disaster. On returning I saw a black screen with one, short, stark phrase: Drive C not present. Retry? Ignore? Abort? Naturally, I clicked Retry. Seconds later the screen turned totally black. A cold eeriness seeped slowly through my innards. I tried rebooting again. White words, blank screen, panic. Reboot again, and again.