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Second Hard Drive failure with Windows XP Pro SP2

I hope it’s just coincidence, but I have just suffered my second hard drive failure with Window XP SP2 — in two months. Fortunately, I can avoid the cost of a hard drive recovery service, since I back up my data nightly across my network to my Linux box.
Both failures were internal hard drives. Both [...]

The Cable Is Out!

Well, not really, but what worse problem could you have when you want to use access the Internet.
Of course, if you have DSL, you could have a similar problem — or your dialup ISP might have problems.
The best solution is to arrange a free dialup backup before you actually need it.
If you waited [...]

Backing Up My Data

Back in the days when I made backups of individual files on floppy diskettes, I had learned what I called Murphy’s Law of Backups. This was: “You will always need one more backup copy than you have.” This taught me the importance of backing up my computer.

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