How much data will a 512MB (Imation brand) 2.0 flash drive hold? Will my about 300 songs and 250 photos fit? Will I have room to backup software onto it? I have no idea how to backup anything.
Computer store tech tells me to do this as soon as possible as my hard drive has failed the "SMART short self test" as well as extended surface scan tests. I'm advised to return it to the store but to backup everything quickly and turn the computer off as death could occur at any time!!
All help will be greatly appreciated.
2006-11-18 05:15:36 · 8 answers · asked by Lost Panda 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Sorry for you LostPanda, but you will be lucky to get ten photos onto a 512. Why not transfer them onto CD's. You are going to need about 5 Gb's to cover your songs and photos. As a last thought, open up Yahoo Photos, register yourself free and put your photos on there. You will lose size and definition but at least you will still have them.
2006-11-18 05:22:57 · answer #1 · answered by thomasrobinsonantonio 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your 512 MB flash drive won't hold that much, especially all of your music. Figure each MP3 is around 5 to 8 MB. If the tech guy says your drive is about ready to fail, then your drive must still be working correct? If so, the tech guy should be able to install a new drive and use software such as Acronis True Image to copy the entire image of your bad drive to the new drive. Just burn your important stuff that you need to several CDs just in case the tech guy screws up.
After you get your computer back, you should consider purchasing a USB external hard drive. You can pick a 250 GB up from anywhere from $80 to $150. If not, use blank CDor DVDs. Get yourself a good backup program such as Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image and do a disk image then schedule weekly, if not daily, backups. Good luck! You only lose data once before you learn to backup!
2006-11-18 05:38:05 · answer #2 · answered by Shawn M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
512 megabytes, might be a little small for 250 photos and 300 songs, it depends on how big the songs and the photo are, if you have a writable CD or DVD ROM drive in your computer that would be a better way to back things up. If you don't have one already I would think about buying a external usb DVD or CD writer, if that's not possible, see if you can find someone else with a computer that you can put your stuff on until you get a new drive, download as much as you can onto the flash drive, take it to your friends house, upload it to their computer, then go back and download more from yours until you get it all moved.
2006-11-18 05:29:17 · answer #3 · answered by Christopher J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your best bet is to by an external hard drive and back everything up onto there. Your mp3's are going to be atleast 2MB each alone, and that already passes your limit of 512 if you have 300. External hard drives work the same way thumb drives do in a sense, but are much bigger in terms of memory and a little bigger physically. You plug them up to your USB port and drag+drop whatever you want into it up to their amount of memory. And to whoever said you can't put but 3 or 4 pics on 512mb, that's wrong. Even the largest photo in the world is not beyond 200MB's. Pictures at most are going to be 5-10MB.
2006-11-18 06:43:56 · answer #4 · answered by Sandfrog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Backup the files online. Use a backup client with a free trial account, like http://www.backuptotheweb.com. They give 30 day free trials of 5GB accounts. Load the client software (which is easy), point it to the directories you want backed up, then let it run by itself.
You'll then have access to all your files from anywhere in the world with a web browser, or be able to restore them all in a snap once you've reinstalled the client on the new drive. Depending on the size of your data, it will not take an extraordinarily long time to back it up. Plus, it will take even less after, because it only backs up the files that are changed.
2006-11-21 02:00:58 · answer #5 · answered by spinsmart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if we knew what format the photos and songs were in then u might have a chance.
if the songs are in an mp3 format u might have a chance, but if they are in a wav format your screwed.
if the pictures are in jpg format u could fit them all on, but if they are bmp, then your screwed
now, for the backing up part, find the place on your hdd where the songs are, and copy and paste them to the flash drive. do the same with your pictures.
you will have very little, if any room to back up any software on your drive. i would go out and get some software for backing up things, and an external hdd (20-60 gb) then get the guy that told u your hdd was dying on the phone and have him run u through it.
i bet hes just bs'in u. at any rate, good luck
2006-11-18 06:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by ImSpartacus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to copy them in a CD. I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.
2006-11-19 19:28:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Connect the flash drive on the back of your computer to one usb port. Wait for a few seconds for a message ("your hardware is installed and ready to use") on the bottom right of the screen. Then you should see on Windows explorer a new disk labeled "removable disk". Go to the folder where you have the pictures, right click on the folder->copy, then go and click on the "removable disk", go to the empty space on the right, right-click with the mouse and select "paste".
2016-05-22 01:04:55 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋