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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 346633" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well in my experience with building PC's over the years, one of the best things you can do is install dual hard-drives. You install the operating system, and other applications, on the primary C: drive and keep nothing but data on the secondary &quot;slave&quot; drive, e.g. X: or what whatever you want to designate it. While I've seen cases of actual hard drive failure, OS failure is far, far more common and the equally common solution, of course, is to reformat the drive and reinstall the OS. By keeping your data OFF the drive that contains the operating-system the chances of catastrophic data loss is reduced by orders of magnitude. Installing an additional hard drive is also about as easy as it gets. So that's my first line of defense: I keep my data, which is irreplacable, physically separate from my operating-system, which is infinitely replaceable. I consider this to be crucial.From the slave drive I back up to an external hard drive every month and I like to keep two or three backup sets if there's room. I'll backup more often if something big transpires that I think warrants it, but I backup every month regardless as a routine....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 346633, member: 13090"] Well in my experience with building PC's over the years, one of the best things you can do is install dual hard-drives. You install the operating system, and other applications, on the primary C: drive and keep nothing but data on the secondary "slave" drive, e.g. X: or what whatever you want to designate it. While I've seen cases of actual hard drive failure, OS failure is far, far more common and the equally common solution, of course, is to reformat the drive and reinstall the OS. By keeping your data OFF the drive that contains the operating-system the chances of catastrophic data loss is reduced by orders of magnitude. Installing an additional hard drive is also about as easy as it gets. So that's my first line of defense: I keep my data, which is irreplacable, physically separate from my operating-system, which is infinitely replaceable. I consider this to be crucial. From the slave drive I back up to an external hard drive every month and I like to keep two or three backup sets if there's room. I'll backup more often if something big transpires that I think warrants it, but I backup every month regardless as a routine. [COLOR=#ffffff]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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