Backing up the data (files and folders) on my PC - why and how

What events happen to PCs and their users that you MAY want to avoid

For some basic 'surf and e-mail' users of PCs there may be no need to expend effort on a task which would seldom be of benefit and the circumstances that are likely to create that opportunity might be as easily met by buying a new PC or at least restoring the current one to it's original state when delivered. However if a user has invested their time in creating any of the following on a PC then it may be a worthwhile investment:

Although computers mix up programs and data on hard drives as well as in memory they are fundamentally different in many respects which means that backing them up has different criteria and circumstances.

As a user of PC applications you will be familiar with at least some different types of FILES such as spreadsheets, e-mails, documents, pictures, music etc. - all of these ARE DATA and to preserve them in event of failures you can make backups of them as files and they are relatively portable to other PCs if that happened. See Data/File backup - often if needed for a guide to backing up data and what you might want to back up at the same time.

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