The Laptop Guy (www.LaptopGuy.com) is a nationwide laptop repair company based out of Columbus, OH that repairs windows based laptops and Mac laptops. One of the top 5 repairs we do is replacing customers bad or failing hard drive. When a customer states "My computer will not boot" or "it says no operating system found. In most cases that is a sign of a bad hard drive and needs to be replaced. Replacing a hard drive is an economical repair in most cases well worth having done. Recovering data from a bad hard drive is not an easy task and is expensive. Retrieving data from a non-working hard drive can cost $500-$4000 depending on the extent of damage and how quickly you need the data.

There are two kinds of laptop/Computer users out there: Those that have lost data and those that will. The Laptop Guy has a simple solution to avoid losing your valuable data. REMOTE BACK UP!!! You ask "what is remote back?" Remote Back is your data backed up not on your laptop or computer but on computer servers hosted by company that you connect to over the internet. Now that sounds very technical in nature and how it’s done is. That's not important though. All you need to know is that your data (pictures, documents, etc.) are backed up and safe in the event you’re hard drive stops working. The Laptop Guy only trusts one company for their back up needs and that is http://mozy.com/home  You can back up an unlimited of data for only $4.95 per month. $4.95 a month is a small price to pay to know that your data is protected. Mozy does require a high speed internet connection such as DSL or Cable internet. Mozy is simple to use. You download a small program from them and you tell it what files or directories you want backed up at a particular time every day (I have mine set for 3am) it will do the remote back. Don’t worry about security as Mozy encrypts your data as it's being backed up. I see no negatives in using this type of service. Feel free to email The Laptop Guy at DataBackup@LaptopGuy.com with your comments about this service.

Our next article by The Laptop Guy will be about why you need laptop insurance from Safeware to protect your laptop computer.