"I harp on having backups on this site and with good reason. I have had my own system just recently go down do to a corrupted driver. I also watched a co-workers system go down this week and all her work that was not backed up to a network drive. Computer failures are a way of life, whether they are hardware or software. That is why there are tons of backup solutions in the market place. Most decent backup software allows for files to be backed up and recovered. Recovery is the biggest key for the question is if a backup solution allows all the files to be recovered, and what is the process. This is why today I am reviewing a backup software package from Acronis, Acronis True Image Home. Acronis is known for their bare metal restore backup software, let's see how well it performs."