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...unplug the hard drive from your old PC, plug it into the new one
as a "slave" drive, boot it and have instant access to all your old
files?<br>
<br>
:)<br>
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On 18/06/2011 15:43, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:johnsemailaccount@gmail.com">johnsemailaccount@gmail.com</a> wrote:
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type="cite">Wotcha List,<br>
<br>
My current PC is starting to fail i.e. if I have to power it down
for any reason, the restart is problematic - I have to keep
repeatedly tapping the case power switch, to get the start up to
"catch" and boot it into startup routine.<br>
<br>
A little digging and I've found little to explain whats going on,
other than there do seem to be others with similar/same PC and
problems.<br>
<br>
I don't have the experience/expertise/kit/finances for fault
finding and as it could be anything from the case switch to some
sort of other hardware controller type issue, I've taken the easy
route (again) and got a new PC.<br>
<br>
This generates a few issues.<br>
<br>
Any bookmarks etc in my browser have been stored remotely using
Xmarks extension in firefox. My address book stuff is located with
my google account. So that leaves a smallish number of documents
etc and of course, my music.<br>
<br>
Now rather stupidly (though with the best of intentions i.e.
quality etc), all my music is in FLAC format, so it's taking up
about 30 or so gig's, so I'm now busy burning it all to DVDRW, so
once I've got backups of everything made I can then start setting
up the new PC with partitions, Ubuntu, user accounts etc etc.<br>
<br>
Can anyone explain the best (also cheapest and simplest) way of
having such data so that I don't need to have to make backups like
this, as it's not ideal and of course, for longer term data
retention, have it in a form that means if the PC dies on me I
don't lose it all ?<br>
<br>
Of course, I know of things like external hard drives and such
devices, but don't have access to them (or the finance to buy one
at the moment). Plus while I've looked at cloud storage in a basic
way, it seems that for this amount of data, it would probably be
too expensive....<br>
<br>
Hence, any guidance and/or ideas as to how I should be sorting
this out in future (gonna have to be DVDRW's for the moment), I'd
be more than happy to learn about it.<br>
<br>
regards<br>
<br>
John D<br>
<br>
p.s. Oh and don't forget, I still like to claim my position as
"SLUG nugget", as I'm no kind of techie, just an enthusiast user
of Linux systems......
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