wengerboy

hope some one can help me my stuff is being packed on thursday and i want to save info from my computer.having never done this before do i need a dvd burner to save all the info to or can i save it bit by bit to cd`s(the important bits)? any info gratefully recieved!!!

rossifumi

Hi, have you got a CD burner? If so just save what you want to a CD. If you haven't got one just go to one of the stores and buy a USB storage device and save to that, cheaper than a CD burner! What size is all the info you require to save? This will influence which size of USB storage device you need to buy.

If you have any other questions just PM me.

Cheers

Rich

wengerboy

hi rich thanks for reply!
basically most of the files are small i.e word documents etc which i can burn to cd.the biggest prob i have is 10 gig of music!my mate suggested buying an ipod seems a bit extreme

chaval

u could buy an HDD and usb2 / IDE connection cable and do it that way. Its not as tricky as it might sound.

sonictigger

We bought an external hard drive 80gb from ebay for about £70(brand new). There are loads advertised and are also really small for taking in hand luggage. We have all our music on the laptop now and backup on the external harddrive.

They are really quick to set up.

jarv

you can buy a 100gig storage device for £90 which would plug into your USB.
Good idea for backing up important stuff anyway.

Dave

wengerboy

that`s sounds like what i`m after! are they easy to use?

sonictigger

So easy, we have bought a second one for the Father in law, who lost everything when he backed up his PC onto his c:/drive!!!!! He's in his 60's and he manged to set it up. All comes with USB and screen shot's for loading. In total takes about 5-10 mins to set up - just explorer set up and formatting the drive for either Windows or Mac.

I'll try to find the link and send you the company's name.

wengerboy

cool!! karma sent to all!!!!

sonictigger

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...221585883&rd=1

This is the sort of thing I am talking about. Not the same company I bought from, but looks the same. The size is the best thing about it.

wengerboy

thankyou very much! they look cool too!!

Siren & Brian

NO NO NO NO dont need to buy any of that if you have a CD burner already even for your music. Burn the music onto CDs in data format, will only take a few Cds and cost maybe a few dollars at most.

sonictigger

We just wanted something all in one place, for backing up the whole PC when we travelled to Oz, or just as security backup. Agree if it's just for music files, word docs then just normal CD's will do.

jarv

simply plug into USB port and drag and drop all your stuff onto it, couldn't be easier !!!

Dave

Flying Banana

For the small word doc files then CD Burner would be fine, if you have a half decent size music collection then it will take forever to burn to CD-Rs.

I had about 500 cd's to back up before I left and it filled 8 DVDs.

As a rough guide a CD R will hold 650-700Mb, a DVD-R holds 4.7Gb (1Gb = 1000Mb) so work out how many CD-Rs you would need.

The USB drives are brilliant, they should be plug and play, ie plug em in, XP will notice something new, find the drivers for it, then as mentioned above just open Windows Explorer and drag and drop.

Great thing with a removeable drive is that it will work on any pc so you can plug it in wherever you are and access the stuff.

There are all sorts out there from £40-50 upwards, starting at 10GB going up to 160Gb +

Loads to choose from and reviews by users on http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...=8&submit.y=17

Have fun