Protect Your Hard Drive Hard drives are mechanical devices that are constantly in use on your system. As such, they eventually will fail and you'll loose your files. The best you can do is to frequently backup your files so that you can recreate your hard drive when it does fail. The following steps will let you better protect your hard drive from such failures. First, setup a backup partition on each of your hard drives.
Hard drives are the best backup media to backup today's very large drives.
Second, cross backup your entire hard drives each month using Drive Image, a full system backup utility. This image can quickly be restored to recreate your partitions and their content. Third, your data files need to be backed up on a daily basis. Use DataKeeper to monitor your important data files and to back them up immediately and automatically when they change. This makes sure you always have a current backup of your data files without having to remember to do it.