New Harddrive

[VoodooPeople]

I'm about to buy a new harddrive for my laptop (dell inspiron 8500), how do I transfer the data from my old harddrive onto the new one?

 

[diduknowthat]

burn a cd or dvd...that's my first guess.

 

[alanuofm]

I'm about to buy a new harddrive for my laptop (dell inspiron 8500), how do I transfer the data from my old harddrive onto the new one?

if you have a crossover cable you can send your stuff over to a desktop. same if you have a network. or getting a jump drive. jump drives are sweet for other uses anyways

 

[dragon2309]

borrow an external hard drive from a friend if they have one??

 

[Geoff]

there are a number of ways to backup everything, here are some things you can do:

1.) Copy files from your laptop to another desktop/laptop over your network.
2.) Buy an external hard drive, just make sure you only get the type that your computer supports (ex, only get a firewire hard drive if your laptop has firewire).
3.) If you dont have much data, you can use Yahoo! Briefcase which stores up to 30mb of storage.
4.) Get a flash drive and savfe your data to it.
5.) If you have a CD or DVD Burner, backup your documents and data on a CD or DVD.