tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8480357.post6812769637183023926..comments2008-02-21T17:17:08.373-05:00Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783404920615182265noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8480357.post-1003603923392583442008-02-21T17:17:00.000-05:002008-02-21T17:17:00.000-05:00Carbonite all the way!<BR/><BR/>It just recently saved my rear with a new laptop, where I thought mt personal email had been moved off..francie whitlockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800470302902475197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8480357.post-27796857197041605372008-02-21T13:12:00.000-05:002008-02-21T13:12:00.000-05:00Many years ago I had a stream tape backup system that ran faithfully every day. Had weekly incremental backups and full backups followed.<BR/><BR/>Today I just use a USB 2.0 external drive, large enough, have a second backup drive behind that, that is incremental, much safer. The things that get copied each day are important, photos, some data files, the things I would rather not have copied get scrubbed every session and at the end of every day. A clean laptop seems to run better.George, Group Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04782383736396948046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8480357.post-15941964120322396722008-02-21T10:37:00.000-05:002008-02-21T10:37:00.000-05:00A USB drive tray ($40-50 at Fry's or Best Buy) is one of the best investments one can do. You can plug in any old drive there and use it for backup (take one of the old 17 or 25 GB drives from the pile in the closet, format it, backup all your photos to it, label it and put it away), or to save bad drives or drives that won't boot but where the data is accessible, like in your case.<BR/>The one I have only take desktop size IDE disks, but there are some that take both IDE and SATA, as well as dapters to get them to work with laptop disks.TexasSwedehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08805157610452113381noreply@blogger.com