The Importance Of Backing Up Your Data

Let’s first build a picture to help you better understand the reality of data loss because many people do not realize what you can potentially lose when a hard drive crashes, a virus attacks your system, or when other types of disasters strike your system.
You power on your computer one day and you get “BOOT FAILURE. PLEASE REBOOT”.. you restart several times.. you receive the same message. That’s ok.. You can just take it to a repair shop.. They check it out, and they tell you your hard drive has failed, and is unrepairable.
What can you do? Sure, you can spend $500.00 - $2500.00 to get your hard drive data extracted by a company that specializes in that, but suppose this company cannot extract your data? Total Loss. Nothing. Nada. Your data is gone. The grimm reality sets in.
My Data Isn’t Important… Or Is It?
For many, they don’t believe that their data is important. They figure that since they don’t run a business that there is nothing they have to worry about… or is there? here is just a small list of what you can potentially lose:
? Favorites/Bookmarks (Oh well right? You’ll just have to build up possibly years of collected websites again)
? Downloaded Applications (Downloadable again right? Think again. After all, most likely the information so you CAN download them again is lost as well.)
? Downloads (E-books, Games, PDF’s, documents, etc… Do you even remember what you had?)
? E-mails (How many years of saved e-mails did you lose? WOW!!)
? Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations (Research, Notes, School Docs, College Papers?)
? Financial Data (Quicken, MS Money, Quickbooks, etc.)
And that’s just your stuff.. Did your spouse or children have their own profiles with their data on it that was lost also? Most people don’t even think about everything that they will potentially lose if they do not do regular backups and then find themselves in mental anguish over everything they’ve lost…. when they realize all of what they’ve lost.