What to do with a crashed disk?
Make backups to be safe rather than sorry!
Oct. 16, 2018 - Willem L. Middelkoop
Yesterday a young woman brought me her laptop, it didn't start anymore and it only showed an error message. It turned out to be a broken harddisk. It startled her when I told her that all data on the disk was lost. She told me it contained precious photos of her pregnancy and young child. What could I do?
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