Hard Drive Crash!

Warning! If you do not back up your computer on an external hard drive then it is time to start doing so! I learned this the hard way a few weeks ago when the Maxtor hard drive in my iMac died. It died very horribly too, so much so that when we took it to a local drive recovery place (which was going to charge between $500 - $2000 for data recovery) they said there was nothing they could do. Luckily the computer was still under Apple's warrenty and they gave me a new one without any problem. My last backup was in October so I've spent the last week downloading all our email since then and all the pictures we sent to people and uploaded to Flickr. The first thing I did when I got the repaired computer home was buy a 250GB external hard drive to mirror everything on the iMac hard drive. Sometimes you have to learn lessons the hard way but don't say I didn't warn you.