That completes our discussion on how to organize your hard drive and how to take advantage of multiple operating systems. I hope that each of you have picked up a few ideas that you’d like to try out on your computer system. As we have demonstrated to you, PartitionMagic v6 is the ideal utility to make these ideas happen on your hard drive.
	Next, we need to warn you about protecting your newly organized hard drive. Hard drives are mechanical devices, then spin all the time your computer is turned on. As such, they wear out over time. The life of a hard drive is only 2-3 years. If you are real lucky, your hard drive may last you 4 years or even 5 years. If you are not so lucky, your drive could crash in 6 months. How many here have had their hard drive crash on them? I see a lot of hands. Those that did not raise your hands, don’t worry, your turn is coming. (laughter) It’s not if your hard drive will fail on you, it’s when is it going to fail. We all must face a hard drive failure in our future.
	The only way we can protect against a hard drive failure is to have a current backup of all of the files on our hard drive that we can place on a new drive when our old drive fails. Let’s look at three suggestions to better protect our hard drive files.