I'm trying to help a friend who has years of data on an un-backed-up drive. It has a corrupted boot sector.
I kept having problems with hard drives on my home PC. Went through 1 every 6 months then realized that they were cooking in removable caddies. Eventually when the whole thing packed in I bought a new PC, an external Freecom Desktop HD and some PC Synch software. I used to back everything up to Iomega 100MB Zip Discs before CD-R was available.
Just think, 12 years on from Win 95, that's 12 years of music, images, files, etc. that could all be lost in an instant. There are going to be thousands and thousands of people out there who won't even think about backing up their files and are going to find out the fragility of the digital age the hard way. When it's gone, it's gone. There's no hard copies, no negatives, no records, tapes, etc. just a corrupt hard drive with all your data locked in.
