On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:29:26 -0800, "MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number
wrote:
Ami wrote:
Hi,
I apologize if this has been discussed many times, but everything I
found on groups search seemed much more complicated than I could
handle.
For Christmas my husband got me a Maxtor Personal Storage 3200. His
intentions were for me to be able to move the pictures stored on my
laptop (using canon's zoombrowser) *not* for backup- but for storage.
To completely remove them from my laptop hard drive to free up space.
Aside from burning multiple backup cd's stored in multiple locations
first (I saw enough talk of that on my search to know everyone
advocates this) is this an o.k. thing to do? Does anyone else store
their photos on an external hard drive?
I am totally dumb as to how an external drive works.
Will I be able to use it like my computer's hard drive and install my
zoombrowser software /adobe elements etc. in that so I can work with
my pictures within the external drive or will I have to move the
pictures/files back to my laptop to use the installed software there
to edit etc. them? Most of the pictures sit and I don't do anything
with them, but I often go through them and grab a few to edit and use.
I would welcome any other advice or tips you can give me.
Thanks!
Ami
http://www.pbase.com/amiable1
External hard drives are fine for back-up...but only as long as you have
MORE than one drive containing the files, and each in a different location.
I no longer even attempt to back-up on CD or DVD because not only is it a
royal pain, but I'm not convinced they are stable.
I have multiple external hard drives which contain all of my image files.
**If you are going to now house your image files ONLY on this one hard
drive, you are making a huge mistake, and taking a huge risk. Get at LEAST
one more drive...
MarkČ 's suggestion is a good one. I too have two external hard drives but
one morning the Western Digital stopped being recognized by the computer.
I had to reformat the drive and it's worked fine since then. Perhaps I should
have formatted it before I used it the first time. Fortunately I still had all
my
photos (and music) on a second internal drive. I now have a 3rd internal
drive that duplicates all my photos and I use the two externals for backing
up my C: drive.
Incidentally, you shouldn't have to use zoombrowser software. Just
plug in your new drive, open it in a window then drag and drop your
photo folders onto the new external.
Jack Mac