Ahh, it’s so good, just got my laptop set up again after a hard drive crash.  Since I work as a web developer and in addition am particular about how my laptop is set up to maximize my efficiency, it takes a couple of days to install all the developer software and configure the laptop.  Some of the configuring will slowly be done over the next week, the specific setting on Visual Studio, etc.  I was very lucky that the data recovery person was able to recover all my data on the hard drive.  Just today I completed my transition from the spare laptop.  I had to make sure I had all I needed on the new hard drive, had transferred all my work over and could do my work without the spare laptop.  I’ve been using a spare for a few weeks now and it’s great to have my laptop back.  It’s faster and has more hard drive space.

One thing maybe unique to health care is that i make sure that my hard drive is thoroughly wiped clean before sending it back for warranty just in case there is any patient or consumer data on it.  I try not to store that kind of data on my laptop but when something happens to it unexpectedly I may have had something on there I was in the middle of working on.  With all the news about stolen consumer data I would rather be absolutely sure than to take chances especially since I work in health care.