Or your computer slips out of your hands and crashes to the floor.   

These are moments that everyone dreads, but today SanDisk Corporation has unveiled a rescue option – a lifeline for laptop users called the SanDisk® FlashBack Adapter.

This unique device fits into the ExpressCard slot of your PC, automatically and continuously backing up and encrypting critical data onto an SD flash memory card.

Whether your PC suffers a system failure or a full hard drive crash, the SanDisk FlashBack Adapter allows you to access your content safely from the memory card.

Designed for the millions of newer notebook computers that have an ExpressCard slot, the SanDisk FlashBack Adapter offers a reliable, easy-to-use system to protect critical files by copying them automatically and instantly to an optional SD or SDHC™ memory card of any capacity.

And with the backup card nesting completely inside the laptop, the system is literally out of sight. Nothing protrudes from the PC and nothing needs to be attached to any other port.

To use the SanDisk FlashBack Adapter, purchase an SD or SDHC memory card of any capacity and slide the card with the adapter into your computer’s ExpressCard slot, where it can be left for continuous backup protection.

The adapter comes with easy-to-set up software for Windows-based laptops.

Once installed, users pre-select backup sources by individual files, folders and/or file types. Then the device backs up and encrypts the user’s data, images, music and other files – automatically and continuously – from the computer’s hard drive to the memory card.

Backup occurs as soon as there is a change to a designated file, or when a file is added or deleted.

There is no need for scheduling backups and no need for further user intervention.

Also, the application has a handy screen indicator to show the amount of storage available, along with a taskbar icon that displays the ongoing backup status.