I need to copy some files from my computer to free up some

[Midlodemocrat]

space. I'm getting a little confused between the CD, DVR, blah, blah, blah.

There are files of mostly word documents approximately 1.5 GB. Does a product like that exist?

I won't need to erase, rewrite or anything else, just copy to the disk and file it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I bought some DVD disks the other day to burn movies to play in the DVD and they aren't working.

So. Help?

[NightWatcher]

1. I bought a big ass external hard drive for 90$ that holds 500g

now I dont have to worry about keeping track of different disks

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Oooh, tell me more. How does that work?

Because what I'm seeing online indicates that there aren't any disks that have the storage I need.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. 1.5g is small there are plenty of things to handle that

[Midlodemocrat]

5. I haven't been able to find any disks, though.

I'm not sure what type is compatible for what I'm looking to do. That's the problem.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Any type of disk should be compatible

I don't know why you're having problems with the DVDs, because I've burned document files to them before.

Your best bet would be as Nightwatcher said, an external USB (or firewire if your computer has the ports) hard drive. It's the most flexible option and they've come down in price a lot.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. I don't either, but Windows Explorer isn't recognizing them.

[NightWatcher]

6. it plugs in via the usb and shows up like a hard drive on your computer

then you just drag and drop.

but if you only need to store 1.5 gigs go look at flash drives that act the same way. You can get a 4g for 20$ in some places. Plus they are very portable

[Midlodemocrat]

14. See, that's the thing. This is the first file I started to copy

and it's the smallest. So, I'm thinking your suggestion is the best one.

I just saw this one at Office Depot (I have a business account there)

What do you think?

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/992995/Seagate-FreeAgent-Desk-External-USB-2/

[flvegan]

8. It's an external hard drive, that you can drag and drop your files to.

So instead of them being saved on your C drive, they'll be on your external X drive (or whatever. Should just plug in via a USB port. Nothing simpler in the world. It's also a good backup to save everything you'd not want lost should your computer be reduced to toast.

[LeftyMom]

15. You can get external hard drives that are a TB or more.

I promise that's more storage than you need.

One should run you about $100-$180. Pay extra for a good brand.

You connect them to your computer via USB or your firewire port if you have one (that would be faster, but USB is fine) and then you'll have an extra drive in My Computer and you can copy things over.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Get an external hard drive at Costco and copy it over

[LynneSin]

9. You need an external HD

nuff said

[Zuiderelle]

10. You could use a data stick/thumb-drive. They are getting dirt cheap.

I just got an 8GB one for about $20. Didn't get it here but this is the one I got:

http://www.thenerds.net/CENTON_ELECTRONICS.Centon_8GB_DataStick_Slide_USB_20_Flash_Drive_8_GB_USB_External.DSS8GB001.html?affid=8&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=DSS8GB001%5E~%5ECENTON%20ELECTRONICS



Also... I've seen smaller ones, like 1GB, for under $10 at the checkout lines in some stores.

[snooper2]

11. go to start- run

type in cmd

in the black window it c:


then type format c:\ :rofl:

okay, you might not want to do that :evilgrin:

[Dr. Strange]

12. If it's a WORD file, just do what I do.

Switch to 4-pt font before saving. Then the file size is only 1/3 as big.

[Midlodemocrat]

16. I thought about that, but there are some excel, a couple of

access and some power points.

I file everything according to client, because more often than not, I have to send them over and over and over.

At this juncture, it looks like the external hard drive is a good idea.

[mainegreen]

13. External hard drive. 36 bucks gets you a 80 gig drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150414%204025&name=%2425%20-%20%2450