Hi I'm moving out of my mother's house & into my father's house. I'm leaving the computer behind but I have so much music & pictures that I would hate to leave all behind. Any suggestions anyone? Help would be greatly appreciated.
2007-09-04 07:24:25 · 14 answers · asked by Ag0ny 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
get a 16gig usb pen drive ... two dvds' ... an external usb harddrive .. or you could network them either through a router or directly with crossover ethernet cable ...
2007-09-04 07:28:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have many options. Also it is only 2 Gigs I bet. 2 Gigs after you compress them, so get winRar Evaluation and compress all your music and pictures. Now if you have an iPod, clear it enough to hold the compressed file, and go to y computer and open the iPod. Now drag the compressed files into the iPod folder. If you do not have an iPod, one DVD or 2-3 CDs will hold 2 Gigs so burn them on to there. Otherwise you can compress them into 4-5 500 Mb Ziped files and host them onto a file host. Most host will only allow up to 100 MB uploads, but unlimited of them such as, Rapid Share, in that case you must make 20 split archives (.zip). It is most preferable if you have a Mass Storage Device (iPod, External HD, etc..).
2007-09-04 07:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a DVD writer - burn to DVD. Or use a 4 gig flash drive. Or borrow a external HDD that will hold 8 Gig. Also try compressing all the stuff. I use Winace. http://www.winace.com MP3's won't compress much - text files will compress 90%. Pictures usually compress quite well. You can of course burn to CD. You would need around 14 of them. But the computer you're taking the data to is almost bound to have a CD drive. You could ask around and see if you can borrow an external CD burner. A lot of people have replaced CD burners with DVD burners - I think I have one hanging around somewhere.
2007-09-04 07:33:57 · answer #3 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can't burn 2 DVD's ad suggested, you may be able to use a dozen or so CD's instead.
If you can "borrow" the disk drive for a day, you can pop outr the drive and install it in the new computer, then copy the files disk to disk. Of course, then you have to remove teh drive and give it back.
If you don't want to take computers apart, see if you can borrow an external drive from somebody.
Thumb drives are still too small for what you need.
2007-09-04 07:31:54 · answer #4 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go buy a flash card. Get at least a gig or two of it and then just transfer it gig by gig! That's the easiest thing to do! If you don't wanna do that, just burn them on a cd and copy it to your pc!
2007-09-04 07:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by GQ19 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows XP has a files and settings transfer wizard. If both computers have an ethernet connection you can connect them together directly and transfer the date along the ethernet cable.
2016-05-21 02:46:42 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use 2 dvd's
snatch the drive from the computer and install it in your new box and copy your stuff to the new box then put it back in the original
or
hook them together thru your network and just copy
2007-09-04 07:30:00 · answer #7 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't have the ability to burn DVDs then get an external hard drive. It's easy to use and you can keep it for backing up all these files that are important to you.
2007-09-04 07:29:36 · answer #8 · answered by Julie L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2x blank DVDs ( if there is a DVD burner)
15 CDs if using CDR
2 trips with a 4G memory key.
1 trip with a nice 200G external hard drive to keep all your files safe and out of harms way
2007-09-04 07:28:29 · answer #9 · answered by stu_the_kilted_scot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As mentioned, you could burn to discs.
Personally though, you should buy an external hard drive. That's what I did, and it makes life much easier when it comes to transporting data around.
2007-09-04 07:28:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋