1775 said "Also - never put your data on your hard drive. Put a USB flash drive in, leave it in, and direct all of your data to folders on that drive. Back up those drives too!"
That's good advice. We pretty much do that on primary personal data.
That is a big reason there was only 1 file we wanted, but for 2 monyhs of working on it, she inexplicably did not back it up. I think it has 2000 members' basic info.
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We hooked Martha's externalUSB backup drive to my old laptop and copied it to her new 64Gb USB flash stick so we backed up the backup.
She knew she had saves 2 separate spreadsheets earlier in the 2 month process, and she found them on the backup drive. This helps a bit, she said.
As I mentioned,we will try to reinstall the OS using our new 500Gb HD and the OS media disks coming from Dell.
