Posted September 18, 2005 I will be reformatting my HDD soon, but i have documents that i want to keep. I have about 30-40 Gb of stuff i want to keep, so it wont fit on my iPod. does anyone have any suggestions? Can i hire USB hard drives from somewhere? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 18, 2005 Have you got any mates that would be willing to lend a couple of iPods for the day? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 18, 2005 You could save the partition the items are on. Or if you've got space you create add a new partition, stick you stuff in there then delete the other partitions. When I formatted my HD I used my memory stick and an iPod, but then again I didn't try to save 40Gb. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 18, 2005 If you have a dvd rw drive then a slow but easy method is to write the data to dvd's. Can be time consuming tho. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 18, 2005 The only other alternative I can think of is to store them on writable dvds, assuming you have a DVD writer of course! Even this method would still take 8-12 dvds, not to mention bags of time to burn them all! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 18, 2005 Personally I think DVD's are the only real way. If you have an 8X burner then thats about 5-6 minutes burning time for 4.7Gbs - so with that you can work out how many DVD's you will need and the time it will take. It might be worth buying a DVD-RW if you havnt got one, because its always a handy thing to have, backing up is only one of the uses. They are pretty cheap as well these days. You can pick up a fairly good one from say ebuyer for about £30-£40. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
