Help Please, Hard Drive Issue

[The Golden Shark]

my computer has been asking me for awhile to update the driver, it says that it should improve its life span. It also says in big bold letters :
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IMPORTANT -- It is strongly recommended that you back up the data on your hard drives to an external drive or removable media before running this update. If an error should occur during the update process, your hard drives may become unusable. In that case, all data on the drives could be lost.
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i am scared for many reasons, and i cant possibly back up my hard drive, what should i do. has anyone else done this already? what happend? please enlighten me,

Thanks,
Mr.T

[|MP|Buccaneer]

It's just updating the drivers.  They give you that warning because there is a small chance that your hard drive will shit itself.

I've done it on two computers, both came out just fine.  The "back up your software" is just a big CYA for them whenever you are doing something like this.