teckie help required

[Sweder]

When your pc is probably fooked and you're told you'll probably lose all your data, remind me to make some hilarious comment won't you.

:arse:

On a serious note, if you have information the loss of which would cause that much angst may I suggest an investment in a stand-alone hard-drive back-up system*. Tom got me into these - they effectively offer many Gs of additional storage and simply bolt on (via a USB connection) to your main machine. I now back up all my family photos and important files every day (you can set this to happen automatically).

Cost: between 50 and 100 smackers.
Value: immeasurable if your laptop/ pc goes postal.

[SIZE="1"]*This inept description reveals my true technical value in this particular thread [/SIZE]