New Laptop.

[Sy5GTT]

Ok.

So the old lappy is on it's last legs. Power in plug is very loose etc. Been quoted near on £200 for repair. Time for a new one me thinks. We have over 1200 photo's and loads of music on the current one. Any tips on transfering all this.

[Ashy]

buy an external USB HD and drag & drop :)

[Sy5GTT]

Good shout. What sort of size would I need?

[Gymnast]

Buy an external hard drive, drag and drop that stuff across. Keep a copy on your laptop and on the external hard drive.

That way if either of them fail you don't lose everything. :) Music and video is replaceable but photos are not

I nearly lost 15,000 of my photos when my external hard drive started failing ... had to send it to a specialist ... £600 later I had 95% of my stuff back! :(

Now I have a dual drive backup solution where it backs up onto two hard drives that are a mirror image of themselves (it's called RAID 1), so if one fails I can replace the drive and make another copy :cool:

[Misky]

You can get a 1TB for around 75 at pc world more than plenty full, i have over 600 avi's on my 500GB and there is still room. :agree:

[Gymnast]

Good shout. What sort of size would I need?

You will struggle to find one smaller than your laptop hard drive, so just depends how much you want to spend :)

[tiff_lee]

All depends how much external storage you want and how you want to go about it as there are various ways of doing it.

You could buy a portable hard drive which is of a predetermined size or you could just buy a HDD of your choice and then a caddy to suit.