My husband is a puter geek so when ours died first of the year we took it apart cleaned it put it back together. Tried different cables/ports and then took it in to a computer tech to be evaluated. He said the drive was corrupted. I had lost about 6 months of photos, layouts and kits. It was hard but it was deal able. I know back up to the desktop, EHD and DVD's. I've been working on doing a current back up over the past week. It takes me about two weeks to totally back up. But I'm hoping to do re install of Win