Saving customer's busted hard drives is always a harrowing process. In a lot of cases, you're literally holding someone's livelihood in your hands, or trying to resusitate their sick child in the form of a screen play or novel they've been working on for years. It can be wonderful to restore this kind of data and see the relief on someone's face, but absolutely devastating to have to break the news that the hard drive is beyond repair.
Hard drives break pretty often. They're basically the only moving part in your computer, and they freaking MOVE.They function like record players that spin around completely 7200 times a minute. Oh, and at like 200 degrees.So fast record players in hell, basically. Frankly, it's a wonder they don't break more often.
For this reason it's incredibly important that you make weekly backups. The problem is that a huge portion of the computing populace has no idea where their files actually reside on the hard drive or how to back them up, and the backup solution built into Windows XP might has well be another version of Solitaire for all the good it does. Windows Vista's is slightly better, but still no shining star.
Soooo... without further ado, here's my first attempt at a little video to show you how to setup nightly backups to an external hard drive using the free Cobian backup. First you'll need to buy an external USB 2.0 hard drive and plug it in. You shouldn't have to spend more than $70 or $80 on one. They're everywhere, and they look a lot like this. Then, you'll want to follow my step-by-step instructions that I outline in my first ever wacky computer repair video here:
I hope that's pretty straightforward. Comment below with any questions and I'll help out the best I can! See you next week.
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