I have a dying HP E-Machines T1090. How do I back-up all files cheaply before it goes?
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You can easily backup your dying machine using Acronis True Image. As far as I've understood you just want to backup data to CDs/DVDs, so I think that you don't need the latest version of ATI which possesses some advanced features. In case I'm right you can just download a free version of ATI from here: http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7
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You need to  get to the hp site and have your serial number and model number. you might be able to make a recovery disk or floppy from the site.
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ok first off, have you any software that can find and delete redundant files on your pc, if not try cc cleaner, free and awesome, secondly defragment the drive if you haven't already, thirdly try and limit the amount of things running in the background as this is guarenteed to slow things down. If you have taken all these steps already with no improvement it may be worth getting a new mainboard, CPU and memory possibly a new hard drive aswell. all in all cost around £200-£300.
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a 250 gb external hard drive usb 2.0 / firewire should be cheapest solution starting $ 80\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=136&\n\neasiest & fastest option too
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"All I want to do is burn all my huge video files" \na)Any friend have a a External USB Hard drive? to backup all the stuff.\nb) Purchase a External USB enclousure and insert your hard drive to enable it USB. then do a backup.\nc) Puchase a External USB enclousure and put the DVD burner in it, to do backups with your friends. There a lot of cheaper items on the web.
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Reformat and reload you hard drive.\n\nCoach
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id recommend kepping it and buying an external hard drive like myself...its easy and portable depending on what model u get!
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Backup Your Data immediately, before trying anything.  Burn it on CDs/DVDs, floppy disks, USB flash drives anything you can get your hands on.\n\nThen invest in a new hard disk the prices are very reasonable nowadays.\n\nRemove the old one and change it to a SLAVE drive.  Install the new one as MASTER.\n\nFormat and partition your new disk.\n\nInstall operating system , applications.  Use the old disk as a temporary disk space.  when it dies throw it as you have all the data.\n\nThis is purely from my experience.  You can try any number of things but Hard disk drives have moving parts and moving parts are suceptible to wear and tear.
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goto hp.com and then you can download it there
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Get all your files off of it that you want to keep, then reformat/reinstall the operating system
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Backup? You mean backing up files on the laptop? I'm confused.
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The easiest way would be to take the hard drive out of the laptop and hook it up to another PC.  There's no need to buy anything extra if you've got an extra bay available.  \n\nHere's a good tutorial for it:\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_6030_install-second-hard.html\n\nWhen you're done copying, just unhook it from the data cables and power supply.  That's it.
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get a NAS (network attached storage) device case.  hawking technologies makes a decent one.  basically you just enclose your hard drive in the NAS case.  \n\ntake your hard drive out of the current enclosure and put it into the NAS.
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If you are running XP, just go Start>AllPrograms> Accessories>System Tools>Backup. Just follow the directions from there.
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There are far too many options to list here.  My suggestion is to read through some of the DVD backup guides available on doom9.org\n\nhttp://www.doom9.org/index.html?/guides.htm
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Try using Vision Backup at http://www.vwsolutions.com
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Boot to DOS, then run NTFSDOS. It will only allow you to read the files, but that should be enough to backup your stuff.\n\nhttp://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsDos.html\n\nIf the problem is more serious or if you have larger files you need to back up, I'd recommend purchasing VCOM Fix-It Utilities 6 Professional. You can find it at Amazon.