Anyone know how I am suppose to save all my data on a disc to reboot onto my new computer ?

Answer 1

You could always take the old drive and slave it onto the new computer. The programs are basically useless at that point, but your data would all be there.

Answer 2

Methods of backup 1: Drive imaging and full system restores

The 'drive imaging' method of backing up data involves making an identical copy of a partition (a grouping of some or all of the space on a hard drive so that the operating system can access it as a logical drive like c:) and storing it elsewhere.

Generally a separate physical hard drive is used, or some sort of removable storage such as CDs, DVDs or tapes. Generally this 'image file' is compressed, so it takes up considerably less space than the original. In the event of disaster, this file can be restored to a new hard drive, and for all intents and purposes, will be completely identical to the state of the old drive at the point the image was made. Very handy.

Drive imaging originated with products like Symantec's Norton Ghost, intended to make the installing and configuration of large numbers of identical PCs less of a chore. A technician would install the operating system and required programs on one computer, make sure everything was functioning correctly, then create an image file of that system which would be stored on a server computer.

Using a boot disk with the drive imaging software, the rest of the computers would access the image from the server and clone it onto their hard drives. The tech would then make minor changes to each system, and have a room full of functionally identical computers in a fraction of the time it would have taken to install each of them individually.

Drive imaging is the best method of protecting against a catastrophic failure, like a hard drive dying. The image created is identical to the original, so with a new drive installed, you can continue as before. The disadvantages of this method are two-fold. First, drive image files can be extremely large, and are time consuming to make. If you are using removable media such as CD-Rs, an image can span several disks. Second, and more importantly, image files are only current the moment you create them. As soon as you begin working with your PC, installing software, etc. your image is now out of date and restoring the drive will not restore files you created since.

Again same process during RESTORE.

Answer 3

buy an external usb hard drive casing and a portable 2.5 inch hard drive and ask the shop person to install the hard drive into the portable hard drive casing for you.

also, check that your computer's usb ports support 1.x and 2.x usb ports.

when your new computer boots up, you can connect the external hard drive to it.

ps: you may likely have to use the external hard drive usb cable included in the portable hard drive casing package instead of getting a new usb cable.

also, you might have to format your portable external 2.5 inch hard drive before copying your data from the old computer into it.

important: use care when formatting the new external hard drive and do not format the wrong hard drive as all data will be gone after formatting.

cheers and good luck!

mercury of love

Answer 4

Burn ur data to the cd is very simple u need a software called
"Nero" from website www.nero.com

Answer 5

If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yk5zpr

Answer 6

http://yanswers.blogspot.com/2006/10/windows-reinstallation.html

Answer 7

start writing cd's or dvd's,kidding a side get yourself a usb external and back up your disk,then restore it to your new pc.