The need for regular backups

I just lost around 80GB worth of data in my laptop :(. My Windows was corrupt, and I was trying to repair it. Something went wrong during the installation and the partition was formatted. So i tried again in another partition, and the same thing happened. The third time I tried with a different cd, and it worked. But by then, the two partitions' data were gone. The main problem is I don't know what all data I've lost. All installed and downloaded software, office documents, password list, some movies, some photos and videos, don't know what else. I must have backed up at least two-thirds of these, but the rest would be gone. It's time I used the external hard disk properly for backup of important data instead of movies.

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