[Bruce76]

Ya, Photos and Health records would be high on my list

Bruce

[Bruce76]

Ya, Photos and Health records would be high on my list

Bruce

[BMWlover318]

I would hate to lose all my music. Fortunately, I have not completely lost data due to a hard drive crash, but I've lost backups.

[uzziah0]

My biggest losses would be digital photos. I also have a bunch of home movies, and I think one is on my external HD, but they are all still on tape from the recorder.

I have most of the pictures backed up on CD, and some on-line.

The biggest problem is my external HD is making funny sounds. I am working to copy everything somewhere so I can reformat it, but I've run out of room.
I have to copy stuff to DVD now, but hopefully it will be OK.

DHT, thanks for the fun contest.
There aren't too many posts here, seems like most are about pictures and video.

[Cold Flame]

What do you have on your notebook or desktop computer that you'd be devastated if you lost? Have you ever lost important data - what happened?

Without question I would be most upset to lose my digital photos. I'd be upset to lose my music/videos that I have saved on my PC as well, but nearly as much as my photos. I try to back them up semi-regularly, but it would be nice to have a permanent solution in place that was hidden in my furnace room somewhere that I could set and basically forget.

I'm not sure I could forgive myself if I was to ever have a catastrophic failure and lose all of the photos of my daughter, family, etc... Thusfar I've been fortunate and haven't lost anything! (fingers and toes crossed)

[David Horn]

I'd hate to lose my photo collection. I can be a bit slack about backups and learnt my lesson when my laptop got stolen a year or so ago and I lost a few month's worth. Not going to let that happen again!

[srsabu]

The thing I would miss most is the photos and videos of my kids. I also keep copies of them on my server, and back them up offsite.

I've been lucky to never have lost anything important. My wife had a drive crash and lost a bunch of her school assignments and some music.

[The Yaz]

Besides my photos I have an Access database that has my miniature collection itemized with details and photos. I don't think I could ever recreate all of that data now that I'm married and have kids...

[wardseward]

Family photos. That, by far, would be the worst thing I could lose.

[AximMarkSD]

Agreed. Losing the thousands of photos would be devastating.

[toohotfortur]

I have never lost anything yet. I would be most upset if I lost my family photographs. I have no hard copy with which to back them up again.