One inexpensive purchase that you can make that will help you with backing up your data and avoiding losing everything is a flash card or a USB memory flash drive.
Most people tend to go for flash drives.
A great thing about getting a flash drive is that they can read and write data at a much greater speed, and they last longer, than a floppy disk.
They also don’t suffer from scratches and other forms of damage in the way that CDs and DVDs do.
Some people confuse USB Flash Drives with USB Hard Drives when they are not in fact the same thing.
USB hard drives tend to be much larger in capacity and are suited to backing up entire systems or at least larger files.
A flash drive is tends to have a lower capacity, at a lower cost of course, and is better suited to backing up smaller files, such as your photo albums.
For instance, a 32 GB flash drive is relatively cheap these days and would probably be sufficient for storing all the pictures on your computer, and much more besides.
Flash Drives Are Easy To Install
It’s very easy to install a flash drive, though I would recommend learning a little about security first so that you can avoid transporting malware, such as the dreaded Conficker virus.
Every modern computer has ports that are shaped like a rectangle – they tend to be small ports located on the top, back or front of your PC.
Turn on your computer and insert the flash drive into one of these ports.
It doesn’t matter which one you use.
A menu should then appear on your screen confirming that the device you just plugged in is ready for use.
From then on you should be able to use your flash drive like a regular drive – just drag and drop, or copy and paste, the files you wish to backup onto it.