I had a hard drive failure a few months ago, but had backed up what I cared about prior to it. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I brought my computer to a repair place and the guy said it would be a little over $200 to put in a new solid state hard drive. I decided to do it myself (youtube is good for a lot of things :) ). I bought one for about $125. I had to re-install Windows 10, but what was weird, even though I never signed up for any kind of backup with Microsoft, some of my personal photos re-appeared when Win10 was installed! (they were in a screen-saver folder, or something like that). It was almost like Microsoft was telling me, ever so subtly, "We have everything!". The good news is, with the old hard drive, it would take about a minute for the laptop to boot up from a cold start, now it takes about 10 seconds.
I've heard people say that EVERYTHING you do, post, and probably watch, online, is recorded somewhere. (but grabbing photos from my personal computer is a whole different thing!)
I had a hard drive failure a few months ago, but had backed up what I cared about prior to it. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I brought my computer to a repair place and the guy said it would be a little over $200 to put in a new solid state hard drive. I decided to do it myself (youtube is good for a lot of things :) ). I bought one for about $125. I had to re-install Windows 10, but what was weird, even though I never signed up for any kind of backup with Microsoft, some of my personal photos re-appeared when Win10 was installed! (they were in a screen-saver folder, or something like that). It was almost like Microsoft was telling me, ever so subtly, "We have everything!". The good news is, with the old hard drive, it would take about a minute for the laptop to boot up from a cold start, now it takes about 10 seconds.
Sheesh! Do you write horror novels? 😳 Thats the scariest thing I've read all day! 🥶
I've heard people say that EVERYTHING you do, post, and probably watch, online, is recorded somewhere. (but grabbing photos from my personal computer is a whole different thing!)