Stay Well,
John

Top advice as usual. It is so simple for people to do this without needing any technical knowledge. You really don’t appreciate having a recently imaged backup handy until that fateful moment you turn on the PC and you get “Windows cannot start – boot drive error” or whatever the message of the day is. So you then try the built-in Windows fixit utility software and are greeted with “Windows could not repair this PC”. And then, my friends, that knot is tightening in your stomach as you start to panic and realise that all of your recent hard work created in those spreadsheets and/or documents and possibly irreplaceable family photos may well be gone forever with no way to get them back unless you luckily have them stored in the cloud somewhere.

Even assuming you did have the foresight to have backed up that irreplaceable data to the cloud, unless you have access to that backup from another PC or laptop handy you have still got a lengthy delay trying to get your PC working again which sadly may involve a full Windows reinstallation – and that is going to tricky if you need to download the Windows installation files from Microsoft without a working PC !

If you aren’t imaging your PC regularly already please heed Jim’s advice !

Cheers
Reg