@BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
2026-11-15 06:51 UTC
OK forget linux for a moment. Your 10 year old PC is making noises and you have 0 backups? That is not good.
Reinstalling the OS is not the priority - urgently backing up your data is.
Get a USB drive and back up your important files - the whole family needs to ensure whatever is important to them goes on the USB stick.
Once the data is secure, then you can consider OSes. But for now take the PC’s new noises as a sign of impending hardware failure of one form or another.
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@MisterFred@reddthat.com 2026-11-15 06:54
Currently my parents said they don’t have a large enough USB harddrive to backup the data
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-11-15 18:10
Your 10 year old PC is making noises and you have 0 backups? My computer does not make noises, and I’m still worried it could happen something someday. I backup some data frequently (at least once a month) and am worried that some private user data is backed up only once. Drives are expensive. Having no backup whatsoever, can’t imagine to sleep well. At least have two backups of your important data! People who never lost data or their drives, will not understand until it happens to them.