Do you have important work you care about on your computer? Back it up. Put it on a disk, use your old Zip drive, or even put it online at an online backup site. I use My Other Drive, but there are several good ones out there.
Here is the Other Drive link in case you want to try it out:
My Other drive
I have heard that teachers are hearing "I can't turn in my assignment because my hard drive crashed." Hey, it DOES happen. It happened to me, but not right before an assignment was due (thank goodness.)
Whatever happened to "My dog ate it?"
Have a great weekend.
Some of my links!
The Nontraditional Student website
The Nontraditional Student blog
My Personal site - the Betsyanne page
The Betsyanne blog - The Moon and the Willow Tree
My Squidoo Pages (give me a rating if you have time!)
(My referral) Join Squidoo if you don't already have a page
This cannot be stressed enough. Though I am a full-time nontrad student, I am also a college instructor. One of my senior students saved all his senior project work on a USB thumb drive. Two weeks before he was supposed to turn it in, this thumb drive died (they have tiny batteries that cannot be replaced--when they die the information dies with it). Instead of graduating, he had to take the class again, since he did not backup his files. Backup is important. It prevents re-work, and can prevent accidents or problems from derailing your education plans.
ReplyDeleteWow - I did not know that about thumb drives. Thank you so much for letting us know about that.
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