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Old Jul 9, 2007, 10:45 am
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sllevin
 
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Not sure to help in this situation, but I did want to mention backups again.

I'm a bit more geek than most, so this may not work for everyone -- but I dump an image of my HD to an external drive once a month -- and the drive can hold three images. Restoring an image will lose any new data you've saved -- but it will bring your machine back clean.

I had a laptop stolen last year on a Saturday; on Sunday I got another identical laptop we had at work -- Monday morning I walked into work with a fully operating machine. Since I don't store email on the laptop but on servers...I lost virtually nothing.

And as a mention for backups -- keep them separate from your computers for just those kinds of reasons. If the external drive had been inside my house, I am sure it would have gotten taken as well.

Steve
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