[Marilyn]

Glad your computer is back, and hope it lasts a very, very long time!! Our daughter, Karen, has a Toshiba and she just had a friend replace her hard drive. She bought it for around $80 and her friend changed it our for free. He works in an IT dept. Her's is running great, now. Hope yours does, too.

For backup, I have two external hard drives, one that stays connected to the computer and one that stays in our safe. Both are updated frequently. I am paranoid about losing important things, incase you couldn't guess. All my important files are in My Documents, so that is all I backup. The software I can reload if my hard drive crashes, but the pictures and documents are priceless.