What about a second hard drive, instead? The same happened to me recently, and I had several weeks of photos that I hadn't burned to CD. Coincidentally my hard drive was getting uncomfortably full (above 70%) so I took the opportunity to install an additional hard drive.
It was such an easy job I'd recommend that anyone could do it themselves. I set up the new drive as the 'master drive' and put Windows on it (the Windows on the old drive was completely dysfunctional). Then, when I had a useable OS, I fetched the files I wanted to keep from the old drive (now the 'slave drive'). I completely reformatted it then, to rid it of the corrupt version of Windows, but left it with no OS, and now use it to store files only , no software at all. That way if Windows goes bad again (and experience tells me it eventually will) my files will be intact on a separate drive. It took me one phone call to get instructions and shopping advice from a relative, one short shopping trip to get the new hardware, and a couple of hours to perform the 'implant'. It's not that long a job but I took it slowly. I found I also needed reducer brackets to get the hard drive (made to fit a floppy bay) into my spare bay (made to receive a CD/DVD drive). Some day, when and if I learn how, I may set it up as a dual-boot system, with my original Win98 on one drive and Win2000 on the other. regards, Anthony Farr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand DHUPKAR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi folks, > > Any safe places/services on the web where I can upload data files from my > hard drive as temporary backup ? For some reason, my computer has become a > mess and worst part is my CD writer is not working. > > Any help, please .. > > anand >
