Nt1310 Unit 4 Assignment

Words: 436
Pages: 2

The week, for me, began with peer assessing Unit 4 Written Assignments of my peers. Before that, I had to complete my Unit 4 Learning Journal and then move on to read the Learning Guide & complete the Reading Assignment for Unit 5. There was nothing much to read this week but some research to carry out on Backup & Recovery Plans using the websites provided. I then proceeded to write & post my initial response to the discussion assignment before going on to respond to that of my peers on the discussion forum. Lastly, I went on to complete my Unit 5 Written Assignment, which was a discussion about the differences between conducting a differential and incremental backup. I learnt a lot from it. There was a time when I had to restore some files …show more content…
Considering that the laptop in question was 10 years old, it was probably a good time to move on from the old technology it was still carrying. So, I decided to purchase a new laptop. Purchasing a new laptop did cost me a lot of money, but it gave me a sense of security and an understanding of creating backup & recovery plans. Of course, because I had the data backed up already on an external disk, it was easy to restore & recreate them on my newly purchased laptop. Following that experience, I started using the System Restore facility of the Windows OS, which automatically monitors and records key system changes on a user’s computer by creating a system restore point that allows users to select a previous system state to restore to/from. According to Ashcraft et al. al (2020, August 19), it is “designed to reduce support costs and increase customer satisfaction by enabling a user to undo a change that may have caused a problem with the system or revert to a day when the system was performing optimally”. Not sure if that would have resolved the issue of the bad sector on my hard disk, but it is certainly a technique worth implementing going