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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Trusting Technology With Your Important Files
« on: February 12, 2010, 06:41:53 AM »Then I remembered that I had thrown out the disks and things from my old computer, having seen no reason to save anything from a system now considered obsolete.
Never throw out old disks because, as you learned the hard way, one never knows when one might need them.
I still have my Win98 installation disk because the automatic screen capturing hardware/software that I use only runs on Win95/98, and I've never fond automatic screen capturing software/hardware to better it. (And it's amazing how well it works with a Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor even though no such processors were even dreamed of back in the Win95/98 days.)
As for backup storage, I like to save all my important files on DVD. DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW or DVD+RW work fine. It all depends on what your preference is and what your drive supports.