Tech Tips Series: Backing Up Your Data
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One of the most frustrating issues you can have with your computer is a hard drive failure.
When your hard drive fails, you can lose all of your data. This means the loss of family photographs, work documents, music, and more.
It is enough to make you want to pull your hair out. Or curl into a ball and cry. It is a devastating experience.
Let me start with what your hard drive is and how it operates.
Your hard drive is the storage unit of your computer. All of your information is storage on this device. Your pictures, your music, your documents.
If you are having trouble picturing what your hard drive does, imagine your food pantry. You have a space where all of your food is stored. Your hard drive is the computer’s pantry.
