Will this work?

Question

I try to put all the music and files that I want to save to my flash drive and then set up my PC(for some reason). So can I safely transfer my data to my PC after seting-up?

Thank you for answering!

Answer 1

Hello,
Yes, this is perfectly feasible and a very wise thing to do. I am now paying dearly for not backing up my music files as I am now advising you to do. I ordinarily keep things backed up, but it seemed too time consuming for me to do this to my music files, after all the drive was only a year old. Now I have hundreds of music files trapped on a 160 GB drive that is all mulched up because I did something stupid. Get your valuable data files Backed up!!!!!!!

You asked about using a flash drive to move your files to, actually I'm thinking that any flash card you use for storage may be too small to store much of anything on. The largest cards I saw were 4GB and pretty expensive at that. But since you put it that way we'll stay with what you have in mind, so here goes.

It's a matter of using your "explore" option to locate the folder where you have your music files. Then cutting and pasting them from the old location to your flash card for safe keeping. When you are ready to use them again, just insert the flash card and move them back to your main hard drive in reverse order.

I'm not sure how much you know and since we cannot dialog this issue together, I'm going to get into some detail for you so we can cover most of the bases for preserving your valuable data files as simply and easy as possible. Maybe you know all of this, if so I don't mean to insult your intelligence. Please disreguard all the redundancy and take the information you can use. Most of what I'm telling you here, I learned the hard way and as referred to above, made lots of time consuming errors, hoping to help you avoid some of them.

THIS IS THE WAY i GO ABOUT BACKING UP MY DATA FILES.
Here's where it starts. Right click on the "start" button (bottom left of the screen). Than left click on "explore" Your explore screen will open up into two fields. The narrow field on the left lists all drives and folders in a vertical column. The "wide" field to the right will be blank. You will notice in the left field a vertical column of folders, plus storage devices and CD/DVD's. This is called the tree and all the folders listed directly below each disk (local disk) is what's stored on that particular disk.

Now, notice the plus signs to the left of many of the folders. This indicates that there are one or more sub folders within these master folders. Left click on the plus sign and the folder opens up showing all the sub folders below and slightly to the right. You notice also that some of these sub folders will also have a little plus sign to the left of them indicating additional folders within the sub folder etc. Now left click on the folder (not the plus) that contains your music files. These will show up in the larger field to the right. Highlight all the files you want to move, by left clicking on the first file (top left) the file will be highlighted. If you only want certain files, hold the control key down and while holding the control key down, left click each file you want to save until all you want are highlighted. If you want to highlight all of them at the same time, click on the first one (top left) It will highlight, scroll down to the bottom of the page hold the shift key down then click on the last file (bottom extreme right), all other files between these two will highlight. You may notice that some files did not highlight. Take your finger off the shift key, hold the control key down then click all those that did not highlight. Next click on edit, (very top left of screen), then click on copy, or cut. Next go back to the left narrow field, click on the flash card icon where you want to move the files to. It will open up as if it were a drive. Anything that is already saved to the card will be listed in the larger field on the right, plus you will see a sort of pie chart showing you how much total memory the card has, how much memory is in use and how much free memory is left. "Right" click anywhere on this field, click on paste and all files that you cut, or pasted will appear on this screen. Files have now been moved to the flash card. If there are too many files to be moved, a flag will appear to that affect.

I do have one thought as mentioned above concerning moving music files to a flash card. Depending upon how many music and data files you need to save, you may not have nearly enough room on a flash card to do this. After all, a music file (one song) can be as large as 50MB, let alone other data files. One thing you must keep in mind though, don't archive a music file as an MP3, do it as a wave file. In the event you want to load it into an MP3 player, you can convert a wave file to an MP3 file. You may have also thought of storing files on a CD R. This will work, but again space is less than a GBT (750MB) limited to 15-30 music files. A DVD R is better but still somewhat limited in capacity, about 4.5GB and multible CD's or DVD's are time consuming to burn.

Here's an alternative to storing data files on a flash card, or disks which only have a few GBTs of space at most. Try using a large capacity hard drive to archive your music files 100GB+/-, set it as a slave drive, then connect it to your primary IDE with your main hard drive "be sure and turn off your computer before opening it up. If you already have your CDROM connected to your main drive as a slave, you can set the archive drive up as a master and connect it to your secondary IDE port. When you restart your computer, it should find the new drive, check to see by bring up your explore screen and looking for it in the tree. In which case, you can create a file system for archiving data and when you are finished moving all the files to it that you want to preserve, just remove the hard drive, do what you need to do to your computer, than whenever needed reconnect the hard drive, replace the data from this drive to where you need it

Remember, just a few things before doing anything that might endanger data files and folders still on your main computer drive. First of all, if you plan to leave this newly prepared disk drive in your computer, this is OK but do not load program, or application folders to it. Second of all. when you move all your data back, do not cut and paste from this drive, copy and paste only. That way you can preserve and update any stored data on the disk for safe keeping in the event your main hard drive becomes corrupted. If you cut and paste, you will automatically remove any data from the archive disk the instant it's moved.

Since this archive drive has no programs, or application folders in it, your computer does not need it to operate. Just pull it out and set it aside

Here's a list of other folders you might consider backing up: Your favorites list, your email address book, pictures and video clips, plus contents of "my documents". You can then copy the contents from this archive drive back to your main drive when you are finished doing whatever it is you wanted to do to your computer. This disk is for archiving data files only. You cannot use this one for program, or application files.

Possibly you can get hold of a USB external hard drive, but these are more expensive. This is your Ideal archive storage facility.

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Answer 2

Hi, Yes but make sure your flash drive has enough capacity. You might try to put all files and music you wish to store and right click on the folder and check 'properties' to find how much data you have.

Answer 3

Music files and documents should be fine to transfer. Watch out for programs as they require registry keys and will not just transfer from the drive.

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Answer 5

Of course the issue here is that if you are re-installing the OS or something, you won't know if you missed any files until its too late.

Answer 6

Yes, no problem, but you would be better served by using a DVD to backup your Data.

Answer 7

yep, files is files. as long as you have sufficient space on the jump drive

Answer 8

Yeah it will work!

Answer 9

Yes!
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