Please, I implore you, back up the book.

Though I'm sure you've done that already.

Right?

I have backups of that on...

Laptop (main working copy)
Network server drive
Tabletop computer
Mobile phone
USB keydrive
CF card
SD card

(Yes, yes...I am a geek).

Hmm. I've only got mine on:

1 x CD-Rom.

Does that make me a bit foolish?

good luck.. I need to do my pc, but I keep putting it off, because there's so much stuff to back up. I really should do it before something BAD happens

Yup, you should.

Glenda

And if you are doing a clean install, you might as well partition your hard drive: then your OS and apps sit on drive C, all your data on D.

Makes it a damn sight easier to do your backups....

.. or use a *real* OS that does that anyway.

I have never once dared to do a clean install on my computer.

Thanks for putting me off doing one for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for the last few entries - your blog remains consistently one of the best I read (and god knows, I hardly do anything else nowadays...).

'Geek' is right! What ARE you lot on about?!

we don't actually know, we're just making it up as we go along :)

Backups.

Those wonderful procedures for instilling coinfidence.

Until you do the restore and find the most important files were omitted.