Well, that'll get the ticker pumping

Booted the Dell this morning and got a blue screen. My breath stopped, my eyes got big, my mouth fell open. It was totally cartoony. Something about an error in win32k ??? It told me to try restarting, so I did, and it worked, but it's got me thinking ... we need to back up our data in case of catastrophe. What's the best way to do this? We've got two other computers on a wireless network -- another Dell ( a laptop) and a Mac. There are compatibility issues with the mac, of course, and the laptop's harddrive isn't beg enough to hold all the data, I don't think (I'll be checking soon.) Are there great big external USB harddrives? Something like that would work. What else is out there?

Thanks, everyone. Hope your morning is going well.

This really is not good

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance.

Schroedinger's cat

Saved:
- My novel
- Photos and movies of Maggie
- Various documents and spreadsheets created over the past 3 years

Not saved, but not necessarily lost:
- My Outlook address book
- Everything else