I should know better, but I got complacent. I bought a new Fujitsu Lifebook computer, sort of an over sized laptop. Have had it since February and no problems. Suddenly, out of nowhere, it says there is a missing systems configuration. Computer be dead. Nothing was working. Panic sets in an I call the help line at Fujitsu - spoke with a very friendly guy in upstate New York who was of no help at all.
I used my re-boot disc that claims all your documents will be lost…but did it anyway. Well, miracle of miracles, most of my documents survived the reboot, despite the dire warnings of the tech support on the phone, and the dire warnings on the disc. Photos, Word, Access and Excel docs, all still there. Music seems to be gone, but I have all the original discs so that was no biggie.
At any rate - if you haven’t recently backed up the documents, photos, music, etc. on your laptops/computers - do so today. I always used to do it about ever other week or so. Guess I had better start getting into that habit again.