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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 610321" data-attributes="member: 13090">I'm willing to expend a certain amount of effort to preserve my photos but I'm only willing to go so far. My best advice is to install (or have installed for you) a separate, internal hard drive. This drive is where you keep your photos and other data and for one very important reason: it keeps your irreplaceable photos and data physically separated from the operating system (e.g. Windows). Typically when people say their hard drive, or computer, &quot;crashed&quot; what they really mean is their OS crashed, whether it be Windows or MacOS. Yes, hard drives can crash physically, but Windows is about one .DLL call away from crashing at any given moment. Keeping your data separate from the operating system is probably the single best step you can take to preserve your data. Yes, you can use a USB connected external hard drive instead but I find them slower and less convenient as a primary backup source. I do definitely suggest them as an additional backup layer......</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 610321, member: 13090"] I'm willing to expend a certain amount of effort to preserve my photos but I'm only willing to go so far. My best advice is to install (or have installed for you) a separate, internal hard drive. This drive is where you keep your photos and other data and for one very important reason: it keeps your irreplaceable photos and data [I]physically separated from the operating system[/I] (e.g. Windows). Typically when people say their hard drive, or computer, "crashed" what they [I]really[/I] mean is their OS crashed, whether it be Windows or MacOS. Yes, hard drives can crash physically, but Windows is about one .DLL call away from crashing at any given moment. Keeping your data separate from the operating system is probably the single best step you can take to preserve your data. Yes, you can use a USB connected external hard drive instead but I find them slower and less convenient as a primary backup source. I do definitely suggest them as an additional backup layer. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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