Why you should back up your computer information...

Whether you take advantage of an online backup service or you have an external harddrive, it's important that you back up your computer information. Just the other day one of my daughters had work to do for her college classes. Her computer did not want to start up, which meant she had no access to all of the notes and materials she needed. Had she taken just a few moments to back up the work, since her computer had previously given her some warning signs, it would have been a non-crisis. My husband ended up having to take the harddrive from her computer, put it temporarily in his so she could get the information she needed since there was not enough time to fix her computer...