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Old December 7th, 2006, 03:33 PM
metallicat_pip metallicat_pip is offline
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If you copy the files to a different hard drive, then delete them from your original hard drive, you aren't backing them up at all. You're just moving them. If your new hard drive fails, you'll lose all your music/pictures.

A better option would be to copy the files to the new drive, then burn them all to CD. Pictures fit very well on CDs (or even DVDs) and if you burn the music as an .MP3 disk (rather than a regular music disk) you can often fit 7-10 albums on a single CD. You can erase the files from your original drive, keep them on your new drive, and store the CDs/DVDs elsewhere (if any files are really important, store them off-site like at a work desk, in case your house burns down, you'll still have the files safe).
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