Hard Drive Crash!

Yesterday we found that my wife's hard drive crashed on her computer. It won't boot, can't be read, etc. Her last backup was from a year ago. Doh! Now I have to go out and buy her a new hard drive and get everything installed on there that she likes. It's a big undertaking.

The worst part is losing that years worth of data. All those pictures, emails, files, etc are pretty much gone. There are data recovery services that can get info like that off of dead hard drives, but that costs around $1000. Unfortunately, i don't have that kind of money lying around. So, that will probably have to wait.

So, don't forget. Backup your data! Especially if you have a digital camera and don't print a lot of hard copies.