As I found out, the backup and system restore software on WinXP is NOT always reliable. I've never found the need for backup software. I don't run critical work on my comp, just games. And the games themselves are on DVD. I suppose backing up the important data for a current SH3 campaign would be a good idea (I'm still a newbie and I stink, so a SH3 crash wouldn't matter much to me), but I can't see spending any money on external hard drives to back up games or large files. I don't know what "low" means as far as hard drive prices are concerned, but I'm no millionaire (I paid $12 for SH3), and some of us have pretty tight budgets. Funny how the mortgage and eating seems to come up with regularity
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