Backing up your data and personal settings in case something goes wrong is always a good idea. The last thing you need is to lose your important files, precious photos, videos, browser Bookmarks/Favorites, and other personal settings.

There are many different backup solutions available out there: Cloud systems, off-site services (such as Carbonite), and local backups. For most home PC users, we recommend a simple local backup system managed by an incrementally-saving backup program (such as SyncBack) that automatically saves exact duplicates of all your files to an external media.

If you don't have a data backup management system in place, you should move quickly to do so before the 'unthinkable' happens and everything is gone for good!

Is your PC unable to start? Are you receiving the message 'Boot device not found', 'A disk read error occurred. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart', or any other error messages?

Or do you have a hard drive containing important personal files (documents, pictures, music, etc.) with no way to access them?

As long as there is no physical damage to a hard disk drive, we here at Upper Cape Cod PC Services should be able to access and retrieve these files for you.