| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 45257 | 2004-05-15 11:35:00 | cheap temp backup storage solution wanted | dibbly (5461) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 236945 | 2004-05-15 11:35:00 | hi all i'm wanting a reasonably cheap solution to back up my data onto while i do a reformat. Running XP Home with a partioned drive. Had thought of moving everything across to other partition but figure may as well reformat whole thing. The ideal would be xternal drive but they are a little too expensive just to do this - unless someone can come up with some really good ideas why else i would need one (please do!!!) cheers dibbly |
dibbly (5461) | ||
| 236946 | 2004-05-15 12:13:00 | I find my CD writer drive an excellent backup device. The CDR disks are so cheap too now, or you can use CDRW disks if you prefer. How much do you need to backup? If the CD capacity is too small you could go for a DVD writer drive, but they are a bit more expensive and DVD media is still rather pricey. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 236947 | 2004-05-15 14:56:00 | I don't quite see the point in reformatting the whole thing. What will that accomplish for you? Put all the data you want to keep onto an existing or new partition, then format just the partition the operating system is on. |
kiki (762) | ||
| 236948 | 2004-05-15 15:05:00 | > I don't quite see the point in reformatting the whole > thing. What will that accomplish for you? I concur. Unless you want to change your partition layout there will be no benefit of formatting the entire drive instead of just one partition. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 236949 | 2004-05-15 17:09:00 | Well, this is cheap - stick the data onto the second (D:?) partition, reformat c:, install the OS, move the data back to C:, then format D: and everything should be as new. Not elegant, not particularly quick, but definitely economical ;) R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 236950 | 2004-05-15 17:14:00 | Why an external drive ? Internal are much cheaper, and maybe you could do a RAID set-up and get a useful speed up into the bargain B-) That's my 2 cent's worth R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 236951 | 2004-05-15 18:30:00 | Treat yourself and get an external HDD - I find them indispensable (esp as my main computer is a laptop and I find the 20gig hard drive a little claustrophobic). I have two 80gig, USB2, external hard drive. One is a Maxtor external drive and the other is a normal Seagate internal dive in an ICE conversion case. The ICE one worked out a bit cheaper and is also a bit smaller so easier to carry around in my laptop bag. Uses that justify buying one (my uses anyway): -Simple backup of my main machine -MP3s of my entire music collection to always have with me -Images of my important software CDs which I can mount as virtual CDs straight off the drive (much easier than carrying all the CDs around esp when overseas). -DivX movies -Downloaded shareware -OS service packs and patches (handy when going around to fix up friends computers). -Lots of reference information related to my work, scanned text books, etc -Back up of 3 years worth of digital photos |
hillisp (4195) | ||
| 236952 | 2004-05-16 10:59:00 | thnx for everones input - but I like 'hillisp' suggestion the most!!!! Nothing wrong in treating oneself every now and then ;\ I was wanting to reformat whole drive just to start off clean - had this laptop now 14 months and I've tweaked and played and done all sorts - thought it was time for XP to be 'born again' . Repartioning is something to think about - then XP could have its own space, which I like the idea of . So, 'hill' can you pass on some more advice please ( I like the way you think :)) I can buy an internal drive and put it into an 'enclosure' can't I??? Is that the way it works??? Looking at Maxtor 60gig and perhaps Firewire purely on a speed basis - tho price creeps up a bit for that - how does one go at making ones own 'enclosure'??? can you steer me in the right direction per chance???? I have googled but I need the correct 'labels' to use to sort the wheat from the chaff - Any help anyone can offer shall be appreciated . . . . cheers dibbly |
dibbly (5461) | ||
| 236953 | 2004-05-16 11:11:00 | An external USB hard drive is a great idea - I do a bit of data recovery (for some less technically able friends) with Knoppix and an external drive. I bought a 5.25" drive case so I could install a CD device if I wanted to - just need an 3.5" adaptor for the HDD. I have not bought any new drives - just use old drives such as 4.3Gbytes previously sitting in the cupboard. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 236954 | 2004-05-16 11:30:00 | thanx John, you've given me a bit more to masticate on!!!! So, I don't even need to buy a brand spanker drive !!! I can go 2nd hand??? Kewl!!!! and what I save there I can use to get a real kewl case!! keep these suggestions coming folks...i'm loving it....... dibbly |
dibbly (5461) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||