Re: [GSAS-board] computer advice

[Paul Wallace <pwallace@u.washington.edu>]

Meredith:

I agree with Eric that transferring over images and documents with a flash 
drive is the way to go.  I get mine from Costco.

However I would like to add that pulling the old hard drive is also a good 
thing to do to keep the next owners from finding anything.  Where space allows 
I simply put the second drive in the case (switch jumper from master to slave) 
or buy a external hard drive to USB box (I did this for my laptop) where I plug 
in the drive when needed.  The external drive is also a handy platform for 
regular backups of things that are too big to burn to DVD.

Enjoy!
-Paul

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Erik Olson wrote:

> Hi Meredith,
>
> Piece of cake.  Everyone and their Mom should own at least one USB "thumb 
> drive", which is basically flash memory with the USB interface built-in. Plug 
> it in, copy the files to it.  Bingo!  If you're running Windows 98 or newer, 
> it 
> should be automatically detected.  If you have a USB interface, it should 
> work.
>
> Can be ridiculously cheap... See for instance:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2013240522+4024&name=%241+-+%2410
>
> Everything that's been sent to this list is archived and is on the big 
> history 
> disk (see http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-board for the current archive).  If 
> there are any other GSAS-related files you haven't sent to the list, feel 
> free 
> to send them just for archive purposes!
>
>
>
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, meredith crichton wrote:
>
>> 
>> Donna got a new computer for xmas
>> our old computer doesnt take flash drives and I don't think we can burn CDs
>> any suggestions on how to transfer my documents and pictures?
>> can I assume the board minutes etc are recorded in our "history" ?
>> we've been told that there is not an object to plug into our old usb port to 
>> allow it to take flash drives, is this true?
>> thank you
>> see you next week
>> Meredith
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> Erik Olson
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