"The time you come to realise just how dependent you have become on your computer is when things go terribly wrong. Your partitions won't mount, your files seem corrupt or, worst of all, your entire hard drive seems to have become unreadable.
"The first and most obvious piece of advice, as anyone would tell you, is to make regular backups. It is surprising how many people who have years worth of valuable files have few or none of them backed up..."
