Thank you all for the suggestions. As more background, no, I do not store, edit, or view videos on my laptop and I am in fact mystified as to how it filled up. I had a T60 last fall with the same 60G hard drive and it was only about 1/2 full. At Christmas I moved its contents to a Dell Inspiron E1505 with more memory and 160G hard drive. I'm about to send a kid off to college and want to send her with the Dell, mostly because of the superior warranty (she will be out of state and dad won't be able to fix her computer for her). When I moved back to the T60 I found myself nearly out of gas. The only thing I did on the Dell during the intervening time was load up about thirty CDs into iTunes. But iTunes reports the catalog as only 2.6G so I can't imagine that pushed me over the limit.
Anyway, I'm planning on following Rev. Stewert's advice and duping the 60G hard drive onto the new 160G drive with Acronis. It has an 8M cache which should speed up transfers a little (versus the 2M cache on the Hitachi Travelstar in the Thinkpad). Back to the "what should I charge" thread, my local mom and pop computer store here in Purcellville wanted $75/hour labor to install the new drive and move my data. It seems to me anyone on this list, qualified to work on computers and willing to make a house call should have no reluctance in charging $50-$100 per hour. -Mike __________________ Michel David Lowe Purcellville, VA -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Announcements and Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of b_s-wilk Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Upgrading Laptop Hard Drive > I've just about filled up the 60G hard drive that came on my Thinkpad. I'm > looking at upgrading to a 160G replacement but I have a couple of qualms. I > use Danz Retrospect backup software and have a complete system backup to > restore from. My plan was to install Win XP, then Retrospect, then restore > from my backup drive. But I think I'll have a problem installing XP because > all I have is the upgrade version. Any suggestions? 60GB is plenty of space for all the system and program files you need. You're probably storing data files that should be archived elsewhere. Remove the extra files and see how much space you have. Unless you have a need to store large files on your Thinkpad, archiving should free up plenty of space. Do you watch movies on your laptop? Do you create movies on your laptop? Do you have lots of music and photos that you need to have at all times? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
