It's Wednesday afternoon and I am back up, restored and backed up. Last Monday was bad. Really bad. Dell shipped a new hard drive overnight and I have spent two days installing and re-configuring. Guess what!? I have two new applications running on my laptop: Acronis True Image 6.0 and HandyBackup. With Acronis True Image 6.0 I have been able to backup the entire drive as an image, and will continue to do so once a month. HandyBackup is scheduled to run daily to back up incremental changes of my data.
Kids. If you haven't backed up your data, back up your data. No kidding.