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desertgrandma · 12-22-2009, 02:34 PM

Okay, so I've had my laptop back for about a week now. Here's what I'm doing.

The 'puter guy put my harddrive in a case. Then he put a new hard drive in the laptop, and re-installed Vista and drivers, etc with the provided disks.

THEN he plugged into the old hard drive, and copied my old desktop folders, and my documents.

Brought the laptop and old hard drive back, and told me to play with laptop for a while, and to see if there is anything that he missed that I just had to have. (And to keep my hands off the old harddrive.......)

The first thing I did was install Carbonite, using the cust50 code to get one year for $27.95. (IGood until the end of December!) Took about 24 hrs to completely back everything up, and seems to be working seamlessly.

It was a fast, simple download, even for someone who's a scaredy-cat of new things, and I did it all by myself!

I noticed the Calibre library was there, as was the Calibre icon, but it was empty. A simple step to reinstall Calibre, which synced with the library, and voila! All books safe and sound.

All pictures and documents recovered. ('whew!)

Had to reinstall a few programs, but nothing serious. (Thanks Leep!)

Now, he's coming back this week sometime, I'll tell him everything is okay, and he'll wipe my old hard drive.

Then we'll download this program,

http://www.handybackup.com/

which is what he recommended, and will show me how to set it up......and I"ll have both onine and onsite back up programs.

This may not be the ideal solution for everyone, but its working for me.

I may screw up things in the future, but I'll be able to recover the important stuff.

God willin' and the creek don't rise...........

Oh.....and I found out his favorite kinds of candy, and there's a box waiting here for him....

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all the good suggestions. While I was going back and forth between online or the physical back up, I realized both was better!

12-22-2009, 02:34 PM	#83
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	Okay, so I've had my laptop back for about a week now. Here's what I'm doing. The 'puter guy put my harddrive in a case. Then he put a new hard drive in the laptop, and re-installed Vista and drivers, etc with the provided disks. THEN he plugged into the old hard drive, and copied my old desktop folders, and my documents. Brought the laptop and old hard drive back, and told me to play with laptop for a while, and to see if there is anything that he missed that I just had to have. (And to keep my hands off the old harddrive.......) The first thing I did was install Carbonite, using the cust50 code to get one year for $27.95. (IGood until the end of December!) Took about 24 hrs to completely back everything up, and seems to be working seamlessly. It was a fast, simple download, even for someone who's a scaredy-cat of new things, and I did it all by myself! I noticed the Calibre library was there, as was the Calibre icon, but it was empty. A simple step to reinstall Calibre, which synced with the library, and voila! All books safe and sound. All pictures and documents recovered. ('whew!) Had to reinstall a few programs, but nothing serious. (Thanks Leep!) Now, he's coming back this week sometime, I'll tell him everything is okay, and he'll wipe my old hard drive. Then we'll download this program, http://www.handybackup.com/ which is what he recommended, and will show me how to set it up......and I"ll have both onine and onsite back up programs. This may not be the ideal solution for everyone, but its working for me. I may screw up things in the future, but I'll be able to recover the important stuff. God willin' and the creek don't rise........... Oh.....and I found out his favorite kinds of candy, and there's a box waiting here for him.... I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all the good suggestions. While I was going back and forth between online or the physical back up, I realized both was better!