Office computer is back on line....
Luckily, we were able to retrieve the data off the old hard drive......WHEW!
Of course, I wouldn’t have had to worry so much if I would have been doing a weekly drag and drop to my external hard drive...DUH!
I’m guilty of that. Not backing up files. My bad. I’ll have to learn how to do it all over again, it’s been so long.
Repeat after me: “Ghost is my friend.”
My home box (XP PRO) has a drive bay with a pull-out carrier that I NEVER populate unless I’m booting to my WIN XPE DVD.
About every month, I power down and put the pull out drive into that bay. Then I boot the system to my WIN XPE disk, and use Symantec’s “GHOST” software to mirror my entire primary HD image onto the HD in the pull-out carrier.
You culd accomplish the same thing with a bootable CD that had Ghost on it.