My laptop is an old compaq presario. My sister asked their IT guys to check it during the times that it needs to be reformatted and they were amazed that my laptop is still working compared to its laptop batch mates (laptop of the same model).
My laptop has endured wear and tear. Since last year:
- It's battery is not functional so it needs to be plugged in directly to the power outlet.
- It's screen case has a crack that I didn't even notice.
- The display driver keeps on shutting down and recovers itself right after.
It still works fine, until one weekend, I was typing something on my laptop when it just shut down that I had to restart again. It happened again while my sister was using it, which means it might conk out soon and this time, for good.
I prayed really hard for my 4 year old laptop to not to conk out on me while I was doing my thesis. I asked my laptop to let me graduate first before finally retiring. I saw this on the net and it reminded me what my desktop looked like while I was writing my thesis:
I was told that having this messy desktop slows down my laptop but I couldn't really keep it clean. Until one day, I saw on Facebook a horror story of someone's laptop with his dissertation on it and it got stolen with all his drafts and research data.
So, to avoid Murphy's law while writing my thesis, here's what I did:
- Save the document (word format) and email it to my three email addresses for safekeeping. (What a freak, I know)
- Saved in 2 USBs.
- Saved in Drive D and Drive C of the laptop.
- Back up in my office computer.
- Create a new gmail account and save my working drafts in "Google Drive".
Better safe than sorry.
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