Everyone needs a backup plan.  No, not an exercise or healthy eating backup plan.  But a computer back up plan for the day your computer dies, taking with it your files, photos, and work documents.  Basically your entire electronic life.

Yesterday morning I came home from a client meeting and went to check email.  The first clue that something wasn’t kosher was the strange ticking sound coming from the cpu.  The second clue was the strange DOS commands that kept coming up on my screen.  For those of you too young, DOS came before Windows and basically kept average, non-computer geeks away from computers for a long, long, long time.   So since I couldn’t access the files and my computer was speaking a foreign language, I had to go out and get a new one.

While I love my new computer and huge monitor, I am faced with the daunting task of finding a way to restore my files from the dead.  Thankfully I backed up some personal files a month ago as a ‘just in case” measure.  But I didn’t back up enough data.  It’s going to be an expensive lesson, I’m sure.

So take my word for it, back up some files today!

Now go run!

Keli 🙂