Backup your hard drive...

If there's one thing that people should do, but don't when it comes to their computers, it's regular backups.

I had an external hard drive crash this week. Frustrating, but not catastrophic. Everything was backed up.

Found a good program that's pretty easy to use which seems to do the job. File Hamster. And it's free.

I use the Windows Backup (Vista version) for the big, big stuff, and this for incremental stuff. Seems to work.

And every week or so, I take a USB drive to my mom and dad's house and leave it there...has the most critical stuff..in case our house burns down.