My Father has a windows 2000 computer. Recently, it has issued a 'warning' saying a immeadite crash was coming. My dad is a lawyer, and it's critical that he saves as much work as possible. Is there any way he can copy his hardrive onto a cd, or floppy disk? Thanx!
2007-06-14 17:45:26 · 12 answers · asked by Viva la Kate! 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
haha. his hard drive is much too large to save to any cd or floppy. if anything he could burn them onto multiple dvd's. but then again, if the computer was unstable this would be hard. my suggestion to you is to pull the hard drive out, and put it into another computer running the same version of windows. then you can boot the computer with a stable windows version and access the files from there. he will need to remove his account password or the you will need to take ownership of his files later. the only other option would be to load them all onto an external hard drive through your usb port. this could also work, assumimg the machine is stable enough. but to be honest.. your dad is a lawyer. so he probably makes decent money. he could have the computer fixed, or his files saved professionally anytime. my only concern is that when he buys a new computer, he will be running windows xp or even vista.. im not sure the files hes saved are able to be opened in that version of windows.. it really depends on what platforms the programs were saved in i guess. but thats a whole different topic. for now either an external hd, pulling the hd, or using a bunch of dvd's are your only options. hope this helps, and wasnt too long.
2007-06-14 17:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on how large the hard drive is, but CDs are only 800 MB max, so you probably cannot get everything on a CD.
A large flash drive would be a better choice.
Or, buy a new hard drive and copy the old drive to the new one. But do it quick, if you are getting warnings about a hard drive crash.
2007-06-21 05:45:17 · answer #2 · answered by BC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! Go buy an external hard drive that connects through USB. 20 GB should be enough. (You will not be saving programs, only files.) When you start Windows you will see an additional drive displayed in my computer. Drag the files you want to save to this new drive. After the crash, reinstall windows and reinstall all your programs. Hook up the external hard drive, and you will able to access these files. Do it quick! There is no hope if you delay!
2007-06-14 17:52:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
your not going to get a warning that something is about to crash, it just crashes and that's it. the computer is infected with adware. Get and external or additional internal hard drive and save all work files to that drive. Never trust the hard drive that you have Windows installed on to save your files. Windows can crap out on you for no reason at all and then everything is gone. If you save stuff on another drive that does not have the OS installed on it then you can always add that to another system or if you have to reinstall Windows then that drive will be save and be there when you finish the reinstall.
2007-06-14 18:38:52 · answer #4 · answered by bradzb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is possible. Depending on how many files he has, it will take quite a few CD's to do it, or better yet, DVD'Rs. Your best bet would be to pick up an extra hard drive, either internal or external, and simply just copy EVERYTHING all at once to the new drive.
2007-06-14 17:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by MWM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he could probably copy all the files he needs on CD. The whole hard drive is out of the question, but if he has mostly documents you could fit hundreds on a CD. Just grab all the files you can and keep putting them on CD before the computer gets any worse.
2007-06-14 17:49:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would Highly suggest getting another hard drive and copying everything he needs to the new one. I would recommend an external Hard Drive because most of them are designed to be used as a back up drive and come with software that allows you to do so fairly easily and after it is backed up then can continue to use it for other back up and storage
2007-06-14 17:55:59 · answer #7 · answered by jimnrara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think logically,.......most hard drives are about more than 100 gb today, and a cd is only 700 mb....so theres no way u can copy a hard drive onto a cd or even a dvd for that case........but u can always copy the data onto another hard drive.....most people use external hard drives for backup
2007-06-14 17:49:24 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have your father buy an external hard drive....nowadays he can buy one that has 300 gb of space for around $80...more then enough to load all his computer files....they work like an extra hard drive and most are drag and drop....easy to use......they show up as another hard drive.....plug and play using the USB 2.0 interface....
2007-06-14 17:55:10 · answer #9 · answered by mlcmonkey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
windows 2000 does not alert you when a crash is coming. it's adware. tell him to get an external backup drive. and backup his drive if he believes the warning.
2007-06-14 17:56:06 · answer #10 · answered by agello24 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋