Posted by
Tim
16 years ago
22:25
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Well, this does sometimes happen (seems to be an interaction with Windows Update and its prediliction for forced restarts).
However, I'm going to do you a big favour now, based on what you've said.
You're using a computer. It contains a hard drive. Presumably you have data on that hard drive that is valuable to you. Here's the secret no-one wants to tell you.
Hard drives can fail. Just like that. You could turn on your computer tomorrow, and the hard drive could fail to start. You might lose *all* of the data on that hard-drive. Unless you have backed it up somewhere (another PC, another hard drive, etc), then you will have lost all that data (pictures, emails, music) forever.
So try to back up your stuff.
Sorry if I sound patronising, but many people seem unaware that they are storing their precious data on a device that is so fragile, and they're usually grateful when I point it out.
If you have data you value, and you only have a single copy of it on a single hard drive, then you *will* lose that data one day. I speak from experience.
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