Good thinking butron. The absolute BEST back-up is an external back-up of your HDD. Please make sure you keep it updated. You should back up your documents, music, pictures, etc. more frequently. There are some here who say that the Novo OneKey is the best. I disagree. It doesn't take into account the possibility of a HDD crash when it happens. There are two types of HDD failures: those that have already happened and those that will happen, and I promise you that it will happen. Novo does absolutely nothing for a HDD failure except lead you into a false sense of security thinking your data are safe. (And yes, "are safe" is grammatically correct :smileywink: )
Novo is ONLY good if your OS crashes and you have to restore it to factory original without affecting your Documents folder, unfortunately you still have to reinstall all of the other programs you installed after you bought the computer because Windows will NEVER install exactly the same way twice. There will always be hiccups with each reinstallation. Anybody who has ever reinstalled any version of Windows knows this. If I have to restore my system, I conect my HDD and restore the image, which is no more than 7 days old. (Documents are backed up nightly) No other installation issues! What a concept!! Now, if I want to restore back to factory default, I just pop in the Lenovo/MS Windows Vista Home Premium DVD that came with my system.
I personally would like to have the Novo OneKey work like a one step back-up button once my external drive is connected ('cause I'm too lazy to click the mouse a couple of times!) :smileyvery-happy:
I personally like my Y510 and have had nothing but good luck with it (except for the speaker placement/sound image issue "problem" which has yet to be addressed:smileysad: ). I hope all of you with problems get them fixed and never have a problem again!
Cheers!
Message Edited by mikepasta on 08-27-2008 05:54 PM
Message Edited by mikepasta on 08-27-2008 05:55 PM
Message Edited by mikepasta on 08-27-2008 09:59 PM
Beer... It does a body good!