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Anyone who has a computer with Windows and is not already backing up adequately should read these articles as they apply almost equally to them as much as they do for a laptop owner.
However, I started out with this series intending to provide an answer to a particular problem that laptop owners have and PC owners do not, hence the choice of title.
On a PC it is relatively easy to add a second hard drive and there is a lot of advice on the web and in computer magazines on how to backup and clone to it; not so for laptop owners, they are in the lurch, left out in the cold.
So to get the most out of these articles you will own a laptop and it will use Windows as the computer operating system (O.S.). Now which version of Windows? To get the maximum benefit you will have Windows XP - this will mean you will be able to take advantage of everything in this series. But if you have another version of Windows (95, 98, Me, 2000, Vista) everything will still apply on the subject of backing up with the exception of cloning which you will not be able to take advantage of.
Later on I show how easy it is to change a laptop hard drive but I don't bother doing the same for PC owners because there are so many other sources that deal with that, thus it is not difficult if you have a PC but it has been difficult for laptop owners, up to now, to do the same job.
The first articles introduce backing up, later articles deal with cloning and then I describe how to choose and buy a suitable hard drive and then how to swap it. If you have a laptop with Windows XP then you will gain the most from these articles and unless you already have a solid backup policy AND a very good way of recovering from a laptop disaster then you really ought to read each of these articles.
But chances are you don't have either in which case you really need to be aware of the risk you are taking because doing something about it is not as difficult as you might think.
By Paul E. Coughlin
SaneThinking.com
4 June 2008
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