Ive always been a sort of free IT support for friends and family and one thing I can never hammer home is to backup regular if you continually edit files, like word documents for example. Ive also never been able to hammer home the concept of saving no data to your C partition and if it is only a partition, save your data to another drive altogther.
I have all my working files saved on a flash disc, which I work from directly, so when I dont use the files, I just remove the flash drive and all the data is safe from harm should my system fail. I actually reccomended to a friend of mine to download Softmaker Office 2006 and install it directly to a flash drive and use the same flash drive to store all of his word documents and spreadsheet documents, and this is working well for him, but then I have my sister who insists on leaving working files directly on the desktop, which are rarely backep up and there have been a few instances when a system error has occurred which has ment the entire C drive needed to be reformatted, and thus all recent work on said files are lost.
In all honesty, I think if you properly organise your system and the way you work with the files, there is very litle need for a backup program at all. Just copy your files to a different location after you are finished so you always have a backup copy of your work. I told my sister the best way to work would be to use a separate drive for all work, and the simplest approach would be to use a CD-RW for backup purposes. But it just doesnt go in.
Yours,
Beev
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