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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
My feeling as well. Except that I'm using the computer right now. Maybe it's just teasing me. There is very little on this laptop that I need that has not been backed up, so it would not be a crisis. The bigger problem is my main office computer is likely dying a slow death also and I have far more on that computer that I do require. My son looked at it yesterday and could not get my data onto CD for me. I'll have him speed up that process. He said something about "do I have software to write to CD," but that's not necessary, is it. I'll have him try again as that computer is far more important to me than my laptop, for which I just bought a replacement anyway.
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When harddrives start to to go they tend to go very quickly.
XP has pretty generic burning capabilities built in.
If you have a lot of data on a computer CDs can be a painful way to go. A CD holds 650-700 MB while even laptop harddrives normall store 100x that much. A better way is a portable hard drive. Even that isn't the "best" way, but it is really the only reasonable way for the average person to handle large data stores.
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