First Aid for Your Hard Drive

First Aid for Your Hard Drive - Page1 -� MSN Tech & Gadgets - How To: "You're doing OK, right? Your computing life has settled down; your machine is stable; and you haven't even considered upgrading to Microsoft's Windows Vista.

Then--oops! You spill coffee on your notebook. (Oh, you don't think that's possible? Read Amber Bouman's 'Laptops and Liquids Don't Mix.') Or maybe there's a storm and a power surge fries your PC's hard drive.

One of our Windows experts, Scott Dunn, has marvelous advice on moving the folders that hold your data files off your Windows XP or Vista drive to simplify backups. You can read it in 'Keep Your Data Safe by Reorganizing Windows' Folders.'

I also have advice from PC World experts about what to do if your hard drive crashes--and you don't have a backup."