Originally Posted by
paco
One trick is to dual boot with the same operating system - the first one fails, go to the other. Another is to create a D: drive and move all your data to it (and the paging file), then copy it off to another hard drive regularly, keep it in your pocket. If Windoze falls over, you then don't lose it, as it places your data on the C: drive which is lost if you have to reformat it. All I use extra these days is F-Prot.
Phil,
As you always have, you impress with your knowledge. I lost you at the "dual boot" statement.
Being a non computer wizard, and will always be, after many years of seeing the caption of windoze encountering an "unexpected error" and do I want to report it to Microsoft (FFS) I left windoze and went to IOS, 10 years later and have NEVER had a problem, NEVER. Changed computers 3 times, everything transfers, so simple. Plus not seen any windoze shops for assistance, like Apple does (for free most times).