December 26, 2007

Help! How do I backup photos and music to a 512MB USB flash drive? Hard drive is dying and I'm new to this!!


How will a data volume of 512 MB (brand Imation) 2.0 flash drive hold? Will my approximately 300 songs and 250 photos in shape? Will I have room for backup software on it? I have no idea how to save anything.

Computer tech shop told me to do it as soon as possible, because my hard drive failed "SMART short self-test 'and comprehensive testing of surface scan. I am advised the return to store, but quickly save and shut down the computer that death may occur at any moment!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

7 comments:

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Sorry LostPanda for you, but you will be glad to get on a ten photos 512. why not transfer them to CDs. You will need about 5 Go's to cover your songs and photos. As a final thought, open up Yahoo Photos, register for free and put your photos on the spot. lose the size and definition, but at least you.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
512 megabytes, perhaps a little small for 250 photographs and 300 songs, it depends on how big song and the photo are, if you have a recordable CD ROM or DVD on your computer that would be a better way of doing things to back. If you do not already have one, I think to buy a USB external CD or DVD, if this is not possible, see if you can find someone else with a computer that you can put on your stuff until you get a new disc, Get as much as you can on the flash drive, take it to your friends house The transfer on their computer, then go back and download more than yours until you get everything moved.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Your 512 MB of flash memory, which will not hold much more, including all your music. MP3 each figure is about 5 to 8 MB. While technology guy said about your player is ready to fail, but your hard work must still be correct? If so , the technology guy should be able to install a new drive and the use of software such as Acronis True Image to copy the whole of the bad image of your hard disk to the new one. Suffice it to burn your important things that you need multiple CD just in case the guy screws tech.

Once you have your computer, you should consider buying an external USB hard drive. You can choose one of 250 Go anywhere from $ 80 to $ 150. Otherwise, use blank DVDs CDor. Get a good backup program like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image and make a disk image then weekly, even daily backups guys. You will not lose data once before you learn how to save!

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
if we knew what format photos and songs were, and perhaps a chance.

If the songs are in a format mp3 and be a chance, but if they are in a wav format your screwed.

If the images are in jpg format and could have it on, but if they are bmp, then your screwed


Now, for the safeguarding of the party, to find space on your hdd where the songs are, and copy and paste them to the flash drive. Doing the same thing with your photos.

You will have little or no part in support of any software on your drive. go out and I would get software to safeguard things, and an external hdd (20-60 gb) , and then get the guy said that your hdd and lay dying on the phone and have him run and through.

I bet hes just bs'in u. Anyway, good luck

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Best is by way of an external hard drive and rear ago on the spot. your mp3's will be less than 2 MB each alone, which already limit your 512 if you have 300. External Hard Drives work the same way Empirical not grow in a sense, but are much bigger in terms of memory and a little bigger physically. You connect them to your USB port and drag drop everything you want in making their amount of memory. And for those who said that you can not do it, but 3 or 4 pictures on 512mb, what is not. Even the largest photo in the world is not beyond 200MB. Photos to most will be 5-10MB.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Try to copy them in a CD. I can give you a link that deals with the problems of disk. Certain RAM / hard drive problems can be easily fixed by yourself using readily available tools. J 'I have found useful in the news. try this site, if you can get what is necessary.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Backup files online. use a backup score with a free account, as they give 30 days testing 5GB free accounts. Load the client software (which is easy), to the point where the directories you want to back up, then let it run by itself.

You will then have access to all your files from anywhere in the world with a Web browser, or be able to restore them at a glance all the time you have reinstalled the client on the new disc. Depending on the size of your data, it will not take many time extraordinarily return to it. Moreover, it will take even less after, as he was safeguarding the files that have changed.