Re: Re: Looking for some advice on hard drives?

[MitzKeymaster]

That is wonderful news, well done. You will find that its the repairs that you made have taken effect, though I am at a loss to explain why it didnt work immediately.When a hard drive dies, all kinds of strange things happen. Sometimes you can repair windows temporarily, but often you will make repairs and then find you have a totally different problem instead. Obviously the very first thing you need to do now is backup EVERYTHING that is important to you. If it is in fact a faulty hard drive, then more problems are definitely going to occur.Once you have everything backed up, just keep the backups up to date as much as possible, wait and see what happens. If it dies again, then you can buy and fit a new hard drive without all the pain.Yoy may find it easier and faster to use the flash drive for storage, 16GB is a lot of space and will save you a lot of time and CD's or DVD's. To use the flash drive, open My Computer and look for the flash drive. If its shown as drive E previously, and its being recognised now, then it should show in My Computer as drive E. If you double click on it, it should open like an empty folder.You can then open your music folder as well, reducing the size of both windows so they fit on your screen, and simply click and drag files from the music folder into the flash drive. I dont know how much space your 7000 songs are taking, that would depend on the bitrate of the songs, but its possible if you are only using a low bitrate that all of the songs will fit on the flash drive, which would save you an LOT of time. To find out how much space you will need, click on START, right click on My Music, and select properties. You will see how many files are in the folder and what size the entire folder is. If its less than 16GB, then you can simply 'select all' in the music folder and drag the whole lot straight into the flash drive, and the whole process will only take a few minutes.If the music folder is larger than 16GB then I'd transfer maybe 500 songs at a time in this way until the drive is nearing full, then less until it is totally full, and then do the remainder onto DVD's using sonic.If My Computer does not show the flash drive, or double clicking on it doesnt open it, then the computer may still have some issues with recognising the drive, and you will have to do it all onto discs using sonic.I'd also advise that you also backup anything else that is important to you, like documents, pictures etc. Something many people forget too is your email address book and your browser bookmarks. You'll find tutorials on how to save these on our parent site http://www.tips4pc.com

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Mitz from Tips4pc