As a PC Tech, my worse day is when I go out on a service call and find that the HD has crashed and the owner has never made any backup of their data files, for the life of the PC. My first experience with apparent data loss was with an IBM AT PC in an Insurance Co. office. There was a fire and the old style CRT (monitor) was melted down over the CPU. I was able to extract the HD, clean it up and get it running so I could copy all the data to disks. After that, the office manager would make backups of all their data files, every night, and take them home with her.
On my own PC today, I have a data backup regimen that I've perfected over the past 30 years.
I've written a Batch File, that copies all my data files, first to a 1TB External HD, and then to a 128GB flash drive. That takes only a few seconds, because it only copies files that have been added or changed.
Then I use an old backup program called simply "Ghost" (ver. 11.5) to make an image file backup of my C: drive, to the 1TB External HD. Then I plug in a 1TB internal HD and I perform a Clone of my main SSD to the internal drive, again using the "Ghost" program.
Ghost may be getting old, but it works just as well today, on Windows 10/64 as it did on Windows 98/32.
I can run 'Ghost' from either a CD, flash drive, or even a bootable SD Memory card.
No matter how you do it....just be sure to backup your Stuff on a regular (at least weekly) schedule.
You'll be glad you did, when your HD howls, growls and goes up in fire and smoke! Having a CLONE drive handy is the quick and easy answer to the problem.
Good Luck, Mate!
TechnoMage