I do backups of my machines on an external 2 TB drive. It's a
networkable drive so I just do the backup over the network and the
backup programs only backup relevant stuff and files that have changed.
My Windows 7 machine is 5 years old and used mainly for music, graphics
and some programming I can't do on Linux. It's a 4 core 64-bit machine
with a 1 TB drive. This Linux machine is 4 years old and also 64-bit
but 3 core. I need to put a new CPU in with 4 cores or more and a
little more memory so I can emulate Android devices on it better. It
also has a 1 TB drive. I built it myself but all that is just getting a
case, a motherboard, CPU, memory, hard drive, DVD drive and plugging it
all together.
Fun stuff. ;-)
On 06/03/2015 05:56 AM, Michael Jackson [email protected]
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Why get a pro? All you need is a SATA/IDE Cable Converter Adapter for
PC, easily available on Amazon pretty cheap.
It has a little box on one end that you attach your hard drive to,
with a USB cable on the other end to connect to your new computer.
The only other thing you need is a small screwdriver, take the hard
drive out (plenty of videos showing how, it's not hard) hook the old
hard drive to the adapter, plug the USB cable in to the new computer
and the old HD shows up on the desktop as an icon - double click on it
and drag and drop any files you want to save.
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*From:* salyavin808 <[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 3, 2015 1:26 AM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Windows 10
Personally I'd just get a new laptop as and when I need one.
The reason is that my favourite 4 year old Windows 7 workhorse
suddenly died on me last week and there wasn't much warning, which is
odd as they usually have pop-up warnings for everything that's
happening whether you want them or not, but not - inexplicably - when
the hard drive is about to fail beyond all hope of a simple fix. I've
now got to get a pro in to recover the stuff I hadn't quite got round
to backing up (oops).
I'd like to stay with 7 but MS like to make money and so have to
regularly drop the one in favour of another with more features that
will undoubtably just get in my way. If 10 is anything like 8 I'll
forget the whole thing and buy an abacus. Or a Mac...
But if your laptop is newish and not used much it might be worth it as
they will stop updates one day.
---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Computer query for tho! se of you more tech savvy than me (which is
everyone else on FFL).
My Windows 7 laptop is suddenly offering me a free upgrade to Windows 10.
My questions:
Is it really free - or are there hidden charges?
Is it worth the bother of installing it - or is it more trouble than
it's worth?
Apologies for this off-topic thread - most of you are established in
bliss consciousness and look upon such mundane matters with amused
detachment as a minor ripple on the surface of the Self . . .
