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[John East]

Hard disks can fail and do fail, and this more frequently than users believe. In the average 'live' of 5 yrs for a laptop the risk to suffer a hard disk failure is real.
Most laptop users are not more disciplined than PC users when it comes to backups and synchronizations. Both user groups are too frequently overtaken by hard disk failures. Without up-to-date backups of all data and system files severe data and time loss is then unavoidable.
What solutions are available and practicable? Should we buy laptops with two hard disks? Are such laptops sold? With one hard disk in your laptop, what can you do to protect yourself against data and system loss?
The first step is to get an external hard disk that you can connect to your laptop through USB. Of course, this external hard disk shall have greater capacity than the internal. Now you can make regular backups. It is important not to backup only your created and modified files but also the whole system. The latter will allow you to restore the whole laptop system to a new hard disk in case the original fails.
More information can be found at LINK removed
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[was_jaclaz]

Thank you for your kind interest in the safety of our laptops, but here we actually WRITE how-to's, I have the feeling that your post is SPAM.

Of course I may be wrong, please post a proper "Hallo" explaining your intentions/attitude/etc.


jaclaz

[John East]

The webmaster of BootLand truly wants to protect this site from spam. Good so. But our website www.best-computer-practices.com is not a spammer. We want to help SOHOs and SMEs to attain IT continuity. And to this belongs the protection of data and system on their laptops. We publish how to articles - and are in midst of publishing more and more helpful article for mentioned audience.
I sure hope you revise your first impression.

[John East]

Laptops have hard disks. They can crash and do crash. You cannot count on good luck if you have important information on your laptop hard disk. There are ways to protect yourself from such a laptop hard disk failure. To achieve this you need to do some preparations. Hardware and software needed to accomplish this needs to be prepared. How you can do this without having to be a computer professional is the goal of my contributions here.
Publishing advices for PC and laptop users is my devotion.

[billonious]

We 'd appreciate your participation in boot-land's but I don't think that posting to advertise a web page is widely acceptable.
You could put a tactful link in your signature.
Imagine one hundred users advertizing their own/favorite page. It is out of point.

Jaclaz, you may have to change rule #4 a bit.

[was_jaclaz]

I sure hope you revise your first impression.

Ok, let's make a deal.

You actually write something About you (and the site), possibly something more than your current "About" page:
hxxp://www.best-computer-practices.com/best-computer-practices/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=65

Then, you come back and, given that your site is NOT a Commercial one, you post that info, describing it and give a link to it in the appropriate space, something that, should you have READ the Rules before posting, you should already know:
http://www.boot-land...?act=boardrules
guess WHY Rule #4 was

4. Spamming will not be tolerated. We have provided a section for those who wish to share personal websites, technical news or FREEWARE / OPEN SOURCE projects, NOT commercial ones. Please use these sections only. http://www.boot-land...hp?showforum=26

jaclaz


P.S.: @billonius
Why?
It seems allright to me. What is the specific problem with Rule #4?
Please do post whatever you think about it here:
http://www.boot-land...hp?showtopic=82

[ambralivio]

Ok, let's make a deal.

P.S.: @billonius
Why?
It seems allright to me. What is the specific problem with Rule #4?
Please do post whatever you think about it here:
http://www.boot-land...hp?showtopic=82

@ jaclaz et all,

I'm very sorry that this my first intervention (to this interesting forum) is not relevant to some technical issue/question, as I'd have desired.

Anyway, while using the Web-address you indicated above, I was alerted from my antivirus (Avast) about a possible malware (trojan JS:ScriptIP-inf ).

I'd do hope this is only a false positive........but who can ever know !?!?

Only an aknowledgment.....for you and all the members

ambralivio

[was_jaclaz]

Anyway, while using the Web-address you indicated above, I was alerted from my antivirus (Avast) about a possible malware (trojan JS:ScriptIP-inf ).

Yes, thanks for the heads up , it's unfortunately a known situation, it is actually a false positive.

From what I am able to understand, Avast keeps a database of potentially dangerous pages, and even if the "offending" code was removed the page has remained "marked with the scarlet letter".

FYI:
http://www.boot-land...?showtopic=8414

and OT, but not much:
http://www.boot-land...?showtopic=7835




jaclaz