My hard drive is giving me problems, I was told that I should back my files up on yahoo, can anyone give me a step by step way to do that?
2006-09-29 07:15:30 · 6 answers · asked by single2mingle22000 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I don't think there is any free service provided by Yahoo that can backup your hard drive. You can probably can use Yahoo Briefcase to store some small files (<5MB) but not backup your hard drive. You need to look for other solution. And the solution depend on how much data you need to backup and what's the biggest size of all the files. And are you willing to pay for it.
If you want to backup your data in your hard drive everyday, I suggest just buy an external USB harddrive(or internal harddrive) and use some free product to backup to that new hard drive everyday. External is better since you can use that to backup your other harddrive also. And unplug it and put it in a safe place.
Backup by burning the data you want to DVD is good if you only backup once a month or something and data is less than 4GB in size.
2006-09-29 07:19:32 · answer #1 · answered by jrichard377 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a good idea to transfer any private files like that. Best to just burn all your files to a CD.
2006-09-29 14:18:05 · answer #2 · answered by Rjmail 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Been down that road. Here was my solution:
Purchase new HD. Remove old HD. Install new HD and reinstall operating system. Connect old HD as slave, retrieve files. Easy.
2006-09-29 14:28:43 · answer #3 · answered by Wurm™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A: Find any files, photos, documents, or other data you want to keep.
B: Burn them to a cd!
C: Done!
2006-09-29 14:20:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would burn to dvds - dvds hold alot more than cd's (4.7 gb for dvd vs. 700 mb for cd).
2006-09-29 14:20:50 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Mysterio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
got get an external harddrive - you can prob find one at bestbuy or circuit city
2006-09-29 14:20:32 · answer #6 · answered by S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋