pc on the verge of crashing save my website please!!!!

[sweetcajunleo]

It 3 years to built my website using frontpage 2003. I was finally able to launch all my work in Nov 2008. My pc is acting up badly the last few days and I need to reformat my hard drive. Here is where I need HELP
Everything on my website is on this hard drive.
1. How can I save my website to a cd?
2. Once my hard drive is formatted how do I put everything back into frontpage

size 69.1 mb
size on disk 106 mb
14,632 files
19 folders
don't know if this info helps or not but this is what comes up when I look at the properties.

If I have to rebuild the website from scratch I might just as well shut it down completely, and that will be like losing my best friend lol. Please help save this friendship.

[IanS]

The best way to safeguard you site will be to back it up. With a site that size you should be able to back it up quickly onto a thumb-drive/USB flash drive which are available quite cheaply in most PC shops and online.

[YvetteKuhns]

If your hard drive crashes, you could still download your website as it was uploaded to the web host server. I like to make backups to another internal hard drive that can be used as a master or slave drive as needed. If you make a virtual drive, you can duplicate your programs and files, but you should do this after a clean installation of software and clean files.

One of my clients had a computer that had so much junk installed on it that it couldn't boot up anymore! I took his primary hard drive out of his PC and made it a slave to my primary drive to scan for viruses, remove unnecessary programs and adware and get it working. If you have a backup drive and one goes bad, you could always use the other. You could synchronize files to save the latest versions to the backup drive which may become the primary if the primary fails.

[entrecon]

For an offsite back-up you can use a service like carbonite

[Doc C]

The exact reason that it pays to do complete backups of your system. Take other posters advice and backup your files ASAP.

[satis]

I won't be saying anything new, but I concur that you should use a USB thumb drive to back up your current files and anything else important, including browser bookmarks (something I forget regularly). In the future, make regular backups of stuff... realize that anything on your computer could be gone at any moment. All it takes is one catastrophic failure to ruin your happiness for awhile.

In my case, I back up everything important to DVD regularly. I also have multiple computers on my network, so I'll back up volatile stuff to multiple PCs. The likelihood of two computers going down simultaneously is slim.

[Doc C]

I've got a couple of USB 500gig drives that I do total backups to every Sunday evening. I use The Amazing Race as a reminder to backup. :)

This is a complete system backup in the event of HD failure.

[coan.net]

On my hard drive, I have a folder called "Data" - ALL MY DATA I PUT RIGHT IN THAT FOLDER. Word documents, pictures, music, website development - EVERYTHING is in the Data folder.

All my programs & everything else I can reload is in it's normal spot.

I have a 500gig external hard drive that I use for backup. I actually don't change data too much, and most of my "active" files that I work with are both on my Data drive & a usb stick I carry with me.

So about once a month, I will pull my external drive from my fireproof safe - hook it up, and simply copy the Data directory to the external drive. Usually I start it before I go to bed - and by the time I wake up, it is finished.

Speaking of fireproof safe - make sure you get one that is rated for electronic equipment like hard drives - since many of the "cheap" ones will keep paper safe, but the heat can damage things like CD's & Hard drives

[YvetteKuhns]

When I moved, I used a permanent marker to write the contents of each box on the "front" side as well as the room in which the box belongs. There is still a box in my office marked "FRAGILE, Protect from heat, cold moisture" that also says "Office" and "Computer CDs". Other boxes had hard drives and other stuff I didn't want stored in the basement, bathroom or outside.

When relying on other people to help, I had to take any steps necessary to protect my stuff. I also did nearly 100% of the packing even though I was injured in an accident. I just couldn't trust "the guys" (my husband or my brother-in law with the truck) to pack breakables like dishes.

Anyway, I agree that the fireproof safe must truly be safe-rated for digital media. My son could even tell you to keep things away from electric or magnets.

[entrecon]

Anyone else notice that the original poster hasn't been back?

[IanS]

Yes, it's one of many that have been posted lately where we (the regulars) have a nice conversation with each other!
Before this conversation goes 'off topic' I'm closing the thread.....