Virgin,
I think R O Tiree has a good suggestion about the "mix&match". You'll
not be sorry!
How many people "out there" back up? As a "computer semi-professional", it's an area where I'm still not where I preach, as was evidenced towards the end of last week when the ruddy thing in the office wouldn't boot!
Fortunately, I have the drive partitioned and my data (most of it) was on D-drive and programs on C (but emails, of course default to C - could have lost emails, address book, etc etc) We managed to recover D onto the replacement drive and I had to reload all my software onto the new C partition. The email is also copied onto my laptop continuously so not much was lost there - but the whole saga cost me a couple of days to get things back (almost) to where they were, and I've still lost anything that was "temporarily" filed on "the desktop".
If only The Boss had let me go ahead with the suggestion to have a "backup server" on the network and keep everyone's files archived there! Pity it wasn't HIS machione that had the problem or I'd be setting up the backup server now! - Perhaps not as there's so little of value on his computer he'd probably never notice!
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---- "Per Ardua ad Mixas" ----
(Through hardship to the bars)