computer advice needed please (106)
bourbon: 17inch
ahhh .. well I don't really want something that is going to be too heavy.. I will have to cart it around with me a lot and something that big would be heavy wouldn't it?
bourbon: Consider the size of a laptop and the size of an external hard drive... which are you more likely to lose?
ok smarty pants 
blondeaozichick: ahhh .. well I don't really want something that is going to be too heavy.. I will have to cart it around with me a lot and something that big would be heavy wouldn't it?
Then go a smaller one and an external hard drive.
bourbon: Then go a smaller one and an external hard drive.
oknow I just need to make sure the external drive isn't too heavy .. hope they come compact
blondeaozichick: ok
now I just need to make sure the external drive isn't too heavy .. hope they come compact
now I just need to make sure the external drive isn't too heavy .. hope they come compact
I've got a 500GB Seagate Freeagent... about 200grams.
bourbon: My 500GB runs off USB power... if you go TB, you'll need mains power to run it... not ideal if you're using it on the move.
damn it
Shell225: Blonde,
I dont know much about computers. I have a laptop. I have an external storage thingie where I save all my clients bookkeeping accounts. That way I back up onto the internal harddrive and also on my external one, so if there is ever a problem I wont loose information.
It also holds all my photos and stuff like that so I dont use too much space on the laptop.
Hope that helps a little.
I dont know much about computers. I have a laptop. I have an external storage thingie where I save all my clients bookkeeping accounts. That way I back up onto the internal harddrive and also on my external one, so if there is ever a problem I wont loose information.
It also holds all my photos and stuff like that so I dont use too much space on the laptop.
Hope that helps a little.
how big is your hard drive on the lappy and how big is the external drive shell belle?
takingariskagain: Blonde...A good idea to check out Choice magazines website... I think off the top of my head its choice.com.au ... they basically do all the research for you in most cases.. I checked it out when buying a digital camera and came away with a much more suitable camera for my needs than what I thought originally.
It costs nothing to have a look.
Cheers
TARA
It costs nothing to have a look.
Cheers
TARA
thanks tara.. I'll check it out
virgiomonkey: ........Is the reason they 'Cry' is because ...you have finished with them....sorry....in a cheeky mood today.....
J.D
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fanx JD 
blondeaozichick: how big is your hard drive on the lappy and how big is the external drive shell belle?
Heya Sweets .... on the lap top
C Drive is 16.8 GB, and
D Drive is 17.2 GB
The external drive is 37.2 GB ...
Brought a Toshiba A200 a year ago with Vista OS and I like it. However a lot of the software it came bundled with was never made for Vista.
Windows update has just forced removal of IE 7 and replaced it with IE8. Windows update then re-installed the netframwork and again installed SP1. Quite a messy couple of weeks before that was sorted.
During the process i stuffed up the bootup by trailing backup boot management software Paragon and True Image Home boot managers. Tried twice and never again, on both occasions ended formatting computers hard drive...errr
However having a 750 gig Seagate external drive, three days ago I shelled out MONEY for an upgrade of the otherwise ok and free downloaded Seagate Disk Wizard software, which only works if it can detect a Seagate product on your computer, however the free software didn't allow the making of an image of only part of your computers hard drive, there Acronis upgrade-product (money) "True Image Home" upgrades the Seagate Image making software, (there is of course also file backup software (not image) which you get with your External HD) however True Image makes an excellent job of creating whole or part image of any part of your computer. Including the hidden Toshiba partition.
So probably you might like to give thought to that to
best wishes u all
Robert
Windows update has just forced removal of IE 7 and replaced it with IE8. Windows update then re-installed the netframwork and again installed SP1. Quite a messy couple of weeks before that was sorted.
During the process i stuffed up the bootup by trailing backup boot management software Paragon and True Image Home boot managers. Tried twice and never again, on both occasions ended formatting computers hard drive...errr
However having a 750 gig Seagate external drive, three days ago I shelled out MONEY for an upgrade of the otherwise ok and free downloaded Seagate Disk Wizard software, which only works if it can detect a Seagate product on your computer, however the free software didn't allow the making of an image of only part of your computers hard drive, there Acronis upgrade-product (money) "True Image Home" upgrades the Seagate Image making software, (there is of course also file backup software (not image) which you get with your External HD) however True Image makes an excellent job of creating whole or part image of any part of your computer. Including the hidden Toshiba partition.
So probably you might like to give thought to that to
best wishes u all
Robert
robplum: Brought a Toshiba A200 a year ago with Vista OS and I like it. However a lot of the software it came bundled with was never made for Vista.
Windows update has just forced removal of IE 7 and replaced it with IE8. Windows update then re-installed the netframwork and again installed SP1. Quite a messy couple of weeks before that was sorted.
During the process i stuffed up the bootup by trailing backup boot management software Paragon and True Image Home boot managers. Tried twice and never again, on both occasions ended formatting computers hard drive...errr
However having a 750 gig Seagate external drive, three days ago I shelled out MONEY for an upgrade of the otherwise ok and free downloaded Seagate Disk Wizard software, which only works if it can detect a Seagate product on your computer, however the free software didn't allow the making of an image of only part of your computers hard drive, there Acronis upgrade-product (money) "True Image Home" upgrades the Seagate Image making software, (there is of course also file backup software (not image) which you get with your External HD) however True Image makes an excellent job of creating whole or part image of any part of your computer. Including the hidden Toshiba partition.
So probably you might like to give thought to that to
best wishes u all
Robert
Windows update has just forced removal of IE 7 and replaced it with IE8. Windows update then re-installed the netframwork and again installed SP1. Quite a messy couple of weeks before that was sorted.
During the process i stuffed up the bootup by trailing backup boot management software Paragon and True Image Home boot managers. Tried twice and never again, on both occasions ended formatting computers hard drive...errr
However having a 750 gig Seagate external drive, three days ago I shelled out MONEY for an upgrade of the otherwise ok and free downloaded Seagate Disk Wizard software, which only works if it can detect a Seagate product on your computer, however the free software didn't allow the making of an image of only part of your computers hard drive, there Acronis upgrade-product (money) "True Image Home" upgrades the Seagate Image making software, (there is of course also file backup software (not image) which you get with your External HD) however True Image makes an excellent job of creating whole or part image of any part of your computer. Including the hidden Toshiba partition.
So probably you might like to give thought to that to
best wishes u all
Robert
not sure what your talking about in a lot of that Rob but I sort of get the gist (I think )and I am not going to get vista on mine if I can help it ... have been advised from someone knowledgable on these things to avoid it like the plague
I have been looking at Dell laptops and they will put windows XP pro on it and give me a disc with vista on it in case I want to put it on at a later stage .. which I doubt I will but never say never hey they will also put both on if I want but I think I will stick to what I know which is XP 
robplum: Brought a Toshiba A200 a year ago with Vista OS and I like it. However a lot of the software it came bundled with was never made for Vista.
Windows update has just forced removal of IE 7 and replaced it with IE8. Windows update then re-installed the netframwork and again installed SP1. Quite a messy couple of weeks before that was sorted.
During the process i stuffed up the bootup by trailing backup boot management software Paragon and True Image Home boot managers. Tried twice and never again, on both occasions ended formatting computers hard drive...errr
However having a 750 gig Seagate external drive, three days ago I shelled out MONEY for an upgrade of the otherwise ok and free downloaded Seagate Disk Wizard software, which only works if it can detect a Seagate product on your computer, however the free software didn't allow the making of an image of only part of your computers hard drive, there Acronis upgrade-product (money) "True Image Home" upgrades the Seagate Image making software, (there is of course also file backup software (not image) which you get with your External HD) however True Image makes an excellent job of creating whole or part image of any part of your computer. Including the hidden Toshiba partition.
So probably you might like to give thought to that to
best wishes u all
Robert
Windows update has just forced removal of IE 7 and replaced it with IE8. Windows update then re-installed the netframwork and again installed SP1. Quite a messy couple of weeks before that was sorted.
During the process i stuffed up the bootup by trailing backup boot management software Paragon and True Image Home boot managers. Tried twice and never again, on both occasions ended formatting computers hard drive...errr
However having a 750 gig Seagate external drive, three days ago I shelled out MONEY for an upgrade of the otherwise ok and free downloaded Seagate Disk Wizard software, which only works if it can detect a Seagate product on your computer, however the free software didn't allow the making of an image of only part of your computers hard drive, there Acronis upgrade-product (money) "True Image Home" upgrades the Seagate Image making software, (there is of course also file backup software (not image) which you get with your External HD) however True Image makes an excellent job of creating whole or part image of any part of your computer. Including the hidden Toshiba partition.
So probably you might like to give thought to that to
best wishes u all
Robert
MMM OK
blondeaozichick: not sure what your talking about in a lot of that Rob but I sort of get the gist (I think )
and I am not going to get vista on mine if I can help it ... have been advised from someone knowledgable on these things to avoid it like the plague I have been looking at Dell laptops and they will put windows XP pro on it and give me a disc with vista on it in case I want to put it on at a later stage .. which I doubt I will but never say never hey they will also put both on if I want but I think I will stick to what I know which is XP
and I am not going to get vista on mine if I can help it ... have been advised from someone knowledgable on these things to avoid it like the plague I have been looking at Dell laptops and they will put windows XP pro on it and give me a disc with vista on it in case I want to put it on at a later stage .. which I doubt I will but never say never hey they will also put both on if I want but I think I will stick to what I know which is XP
I am running vista on mine and i don't know what all the worry is about. I haven't had a problem with it and it seems to operate very similar to XP except thet have dropped the 'my' off the front of everything, eg, 'my documents' is now just 'documents','my computer' is 'computer', etc. The graphics are very clear and it is easy to use. The biggest problem I have had is getting used to the touchpad instead of the mouse, but i am pretty used to it now. I was also warned about vista but when I asked at the computer store they said what I just confirmed and said it is the way forward so i might as well go with it so i did and i don't regret it.
Ralf74: I am running vista on mine and i don't know what all the worry is about. I haven't had a problem with it and it seems to operate very similar to XP except thet have dropped the 'my' off the front of everything, eg, 'my documents' is now just 'documents','my computer' is 'computer', etc. The graphics are very clear and it is easy to use. The biggest problem I have had is getting used to the touchpad instead of the mouse, but i am pretty used to it now. I was also warned about vista but when I asked at the computer store they said what I just confirmed and said it is the way forward so i might as well go with it so i did and i don't regret it.
thats good you haven't had trouble ralf
think I will still stick with xp tho.. at least until windows 7 comes out anywayblondeaozichick: thats good you haven't had trouble ralf think I will still stick with xp tho.. at least until windows 7 comes out anyway
probably better if you are more comfortable with that.Vista had major software compatibility issues and there was a lack of drivers for pre-vista hardware. I'm sure they've sorted a lot of that out now, but I'd wait for Windows 7... I've got the Windows 7 alpha release and I'm guessing the beta release will be out towards the end of the year.
Even if you get Windows 7 when it is released... don't throw your XP away.
Even if you get Windows 7 when it is released... don't throw your XP away.
bourbon: Vista had major software compatibility issues and there was a lack of drivers for pre-vista hardware. I'm sure they've sorted a lot of that out now, but I'd wait for Windows 7... I've got the Windows 7 alpha release and I'm guessing the beta release will be out towards the end of the year.
Even if you get Windows 7 when it is released... don't throw your XP away.
Even if you get Windows 7 when it is released... don't throw your XP away.
not according to Robert they haven't sorted it out
blondeaozichick: not according to Robert they haven't sorted it out
Maybe they haven't. I've never even tried Vista... didn't think it was worth the effort.
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Consider the size of a laptop and the size of an external hard drive... which are you more likely to lose?