The Most Important Thing Nobody Ever Told You About Windows PCs

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14 min readMar 20, 2021

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One of the most important things about Windows PCs is also the least known to most end users. Your PC will die one day — pretty much anything can go bad, especially in a consumer PC. Yes, you don’t want to deal with this — I know! but you are going scream and cry when all your data is lost because your machine died. You are going to be miserable while your PC is queued up at the Geek Squad waiting to even know if something is recoverable or not.

You may already know a lot about Windows Backups. But trust me on this — this article will contain many things you know and much that you don’t. Unless you work or have worked in this specialized field, chances are this article is useful for you.

Don’t be like me where I have some photos which are only on my old video iPod, and it works for now, but the data can no longer be read from the iPod as nobody makes the broken electronic part anymore.

If you use a PC for home or work, you really need to know how to save your data from destruction, and how to recover your data — and not lose all of your personal family photos like I did when my old Windows PC died a long time ago (I should…

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