i use the external usb connected hard drive for back ups. it's unplugged most of the time and in operation only during back ups - oh yes and recovery once in a while. i use a few xcopy commands on my xp machine and 'robocopy' commands on my VISTA (don't upgrade - it's crap.) put the commands in a bat file on your bu drive and most importantly.... keep all important data on your active system in one directory... like c:\cbu or c:\mine or c:\data. you'll also want to grab favorites. i can provide details to anyone interested. dave In a message dated 9/11/2007 3:38:42 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can go a couple ways…. The way I recommend is to purchase a USB hard drive enclosure, that way there’s no opening of your new computers case. If this idea doesn’t work, depending on your new computers configuration you could install the new drive into your computer making sure if you have a master to move the jumper on the disk drive to slave. I hope this helps….. good luck! Danny Espinoza Broke c2,c6,c7 and doner bone at c2 TBI from blood going to central cortex from spinal cord off a vent "woohoo" however only one diaphragm works right now "due to asymmetric SCI" http://www.myspace.com/danny5020 From: t crook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:34 AM To: q-list Subject: [QUAD-L] computer question.... Hi all- Well my six year old Gateway bit the dust. The mother-board went and maybe the power supply as well. So I have a new Dell on the way. My deal with the old Gateway is, I need to retrieve my hard-drive (I didn't have it backed up, I know, I know.... bad Tim.) I did order an external hard-drive so everything will be backed up on the new one!!!! So all you fellow puter geeks- do I need to plug my old hard-drive into a slave drive... r' or what? Thanks- Tim _www.whoopiekat.com_ (http://www.whoopiekat.com/) ____________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, _mobile search that gives answers_ (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48252/*http:/mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC) , not web links. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
