You may keep your accounts on your computer hard drive. Photos, music, films, text documents such as letters, faxes, invoices etc. They are all important to you in some way and to lose them would be a disaster!

But this is not going to happen to you is it. Because you keep all your important files backed up on a external hard drive. You do back up your files, don't you?

If you answered no to this question then you are taking a chance with your personal important information. What if your computer was stolen. Or maybe the hard drive develops a fault rendering the information unreadable. You would be in trouble with no data backup wouldn't you. Data recovery companies can retrieve your data from expired hard drives but it can be a very costly process.

There are various computer data backup software packages available to help you backup your important files. Most will allow you to create backups on CD or DVD. You can also backup to a external hard drive. This allows portability of your data backups because you can take it with you.

Norton Ghost is a backup program you could use or True Image by Acronis. This is the one I use personally. Both are reasonably priced and straight forward to use.

Please make sure you give backing up your important files strong consideration. I have seen grown men cry after losing business accounts, etc.

It does not take long to set up a backup program and believe me it will save you a lot of heartache if your hard drive gives out on you.

If you do not feel confident configuring and using backup software you could use the Maxtor One Touch backup drives.

Basically a one touch backup drive allows you to backup your PC with a single press of a button. The Maxtor OneTouch is avaialable from Amazon.co.uk and is delivered for free in the UK with Super Saver Delivery

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