I am not very technical so would apperciate answers I can understand!
Thanks!
2006-11-14 20:50:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
well its quite easy actually,u can adopt this:
1. buy a memory stick/ pen drive: this is an external removable hard drive which can store huge data and u can save ur documents in there. u can take it out while not using ur laptop and carry it
its like a CD with more capacity
2. burn into CD: which u have to do evryday after ur work being finished, but this has less storage
3. u can make partition in ur hard drive, like C D E F.....if u r working on C drive create a backup storage in any other drive (for this just copy and paste).
this will ensure, u get ur data even if ur hard drive gets crashed.
2006-11-14 21:11:19 · answer #1 · answered by mimpi 3 · 8⤊ 12⤋
depends on the amount of data, can you burn CD / DVDs ?
If you have more, you could use a memory stick, that fits into your usb port.
If you have even more, you could buy a remote hard drive, which fits in 1 or 2 USB ports. This is best option if you lots of digital photos etc.. Burning CDs is OK, but time consuming and you need to keep track of them.
The more data you want to back up, the more it will cost you. Best long term option is the remote hard drive, about a £100.
If it is literally a few files, email them to your yahoo or hotmail account and let someone else store them!!!
2006-11-15 04:54:47 · answer #2 · answered by dsclimb1 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Buy yourself an external hard disk drive, one that comes with a USB (universal serial bus) cable. With these drives you plug it into your laptops USB port and windows will find your new hardware in a few seconds and away you go. The external new drive will show up as a new drive letter within windows explorer such as drive E: etc. Use windows explorer to copy or move files to the new drive, or you could run the windows backup tool.
2006-11-15 09:09:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
You can use special backup software to accomplish this task. In my opinion the most reliable and safest place to backup to is either an external drive or a CD/DVD. As for backup software I can recommend you to take a look at Acronis True Image. You can purchase the latest version here: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
Or download a free version here: http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7
2006-11-15 06:07:30 · answer #4 · answered by S&H 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm like you, no expert, but I was given a USB memory stick and use this. You would'nt believe how easy it is. Just plug it in to your laptop and transfer the files. Any computer shop will sell the sticks.
2006-11-15 05:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by teala 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Get an external usb hard drive, plug it in and use it like a normal hard drive. Keep duplicate copies of your data on the external hard drive.
2006-11-15 04:58:46 · answer #6 · answered by bergab_hase 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
1. Burn it to cd or dvd
2. if you dont have cd or dvd writer, then move the file you want to back up by flashdisk and burn them to cd/dvd on the computer that has cd/dvd writer
3. Note that cd/dvd might damage for a certain of time, so you may have to backup to cd/dvd in a certain of time.
4. It really helps if your computer that you working on it, have partitioned hard drive, and save your work whereas on the partitioned drive (ex. drive D) rather than save them on the same drive of your windows drive. You can ask your IT friend or computer store how to do this.
2006-11-15 06:03:47 · answer #7 · answered by penjahat 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Buy a memory stick (available anywhere that sells computers or related stuff-even WH Smiths sells them) and put it all on there.
2006-11-15 04:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by Free cloud loafer 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
if you have a CD Writer then u can buy empty CD's and burn whichever folders u want on them
else
u can get a pen drive and copy all the folders on them
if u are using win xp there is system restore option which u can use so u dont need a backup
2006-11-15 04:55:58 · answer #9 · answered by lakshmi r 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
The best and easiet way is to "burn" it all to CD ... if you have huge amounts of Data and a DVD burner ...then use a DVD
2006-11-15 04:53:11 · answer #10 · answered by deadkelly_1 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Putting some Anti-Spyware and Anti-virus
2006-11-15 04:59:47 · answer #11 · answered by Ramj 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋