If Murphy Strikes (Immediate Actions):
- Try rebooting your computer into “recovery” or “safe” mode
- Attempt to recover important data from your crashed hard drive
- Do-It-Yourself with an external hard drive enclosure
- Pay a professional
- Use another computer to get back to work
Nipping Murphy in the Bud (Prevention Steps):
- Use a Solid State Drive (SSD)
- Use a hard drive with fall protection
Raining on Murphy’s Parade (Steps to Reduce Impact):
- Continually backup your important data to one or more of these places
- “The Cloud” via dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive
- An external hard drive or thumb drive
- A second hard drive in your computer
- Email important documents to your email account that has online storage
- Use a Chromebook
Making Murphy Cry (Extreme Measures!):
