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"I f#$ked up and had to reinstall my OS by format last night, losing all my mail, favorites, and another 20 GB of files"

I heard just that the other night as I typed away in a chat room. The reality is that, in one, way, shape or form, we all have heard it 1000 times.

Keeping consistent with my obsessive-compulsive nature and my general tendency of consistent excess, I shall ramble to you the 1001st. Admit it, at one point or another, we have all lost at least one file. I can't count how many times I have heard stories of people losing entire hard drives and not having backed up!

Furthermore, in keeping with Lumpy's tradition of putting his foot in his mouth, I demonstrate by thrusting 2 size 10 and a half EEEs ankle deep. The day after my friend and I spoke, I managed to fry my USB RAM Drive!

Fortunately, I only lost two files. Everything else was backed-up. However, they were also the two files I had been working on for the better part of week.

It could have been worse. Like I said, you hear about it all the time, I could lave lost everything. I usually back up data every week. Likely a factor in why I have never lost "everything".

Well, I asked for questions regarding what you needed this fine friend of mine was quick to oblige so lets start with her question.

I have a question for you. My friend is trying to format his computer and reinstall windows again, but when he's trying to do that it tells him that he has to change the partition of the disk. Do you know what it means and how to fix it? Because I have no clue... thanks and talk to you soon.

M

There are couple things we should cover here. First, but from the sound of the e-mail it might be too late; your friend should have made sure to back everything up. There are numerous ways to do this and I will cover that topic at some future time. For those of wishing to learn more on backing up a drive I would suggest you try this article which is good " starting point " article.