Back Up, Back Up, Back Up

Not only is it prudent to back up your data, it's critical if you're formatting and doing a clean installation of your operating system.  If you are formatting, you should back up your data to some type of media (CDR's or a second partition that won't be involved during the formatting).  During upgrades, most often data is there; but I'd recommend backing up just to be certain.

Here are a list of some of the things you should  consider backing up:

• Documents and photographs

• Downloads

• Email (don't forget your address book/contacts)

• Favorites

• Passwords

• Programs and software

• Games that are saved

• MP3's

• Movies and videos

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