My six month old HP needs a new hard drive (it started to roll up its turbines and launch yesterday morning). HP has one in the mail to me with a bunch of start up disks. Apparently I get the honors of swapping this thing out.
Good thing I bought a couple external hard drives.
So I’m wondering what all I should back up that I may have missed before making the swap? I am using a Seagate 750 gig drive with the backup software it comes with, and a second 250 gig HP personal drive. I “believe” my entire hard drive is backed up, but I’m not feeling all warm and fuzzy yet.
How can I make sure that my programs that were downloaded get reinstalled correctly? Lightroom for one, Turbo Cad Pro for another. These two programs are quite dear to me and it took me a lot of effort setting them up.
Any tips / words of wisdom? Luck and prayer is cool too……
