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• 9,041 Posts

  Sun, Sep 10 2017 11:36 AM

  Laptop 5 years old,two strange horizontal green lines just appeared on the screen AND the crack where I threw the mouse 3 yrs ago ( which hit keyboard with an unlucky bounce ;-) ) has started to bleed more of a Reddish tint to the screen lately.

  Anyway...decided on a new one and then thought..

  " How do I save / transfer photos to a new one etc etc etc ??

  do I do this back up thing that they ask every occasional shut down ? 

  and even then,say the screen goes blank one day ( looks like it's on it's ass end )..how will I access said foto's IF backed up ??

  Andy

   

• julio1235 238 Posts

  Sun, Sep 10 2017 6:48 PM

  Easiest way for me to do it Andy would be to save the photos to an external drive or a thumb drive that plugs into one of your external ports on your laptop.

  Hope this helps,  J

• lonniescott711 4,207 Posts

  Sun, Sep 10 2017 7:43 PM

  julio1235:

  Easiest way for me to do it Andy would be to save the photos to an external drive or a thumb drive that plugs into one of your external ports on your laptop.

  Hope this helps,  J

  +1 Or you can also send all of the photos to your email address . Its how folks saved stuff before cloud storage . But if you have the time get an external hard drive and transfer everything you want to save to it as Julio suggested . Now if the screen is just broken you can get a monitor screen and hook up and play on . But you should still get an external hardrive no matter what you decide .

  A good 1 terabyte external hard drive should be more than enough to store what ever it is you want to save . I have one and I keep all of my music and movie downloads on it  Also the less stuff you store on your computer the better . Clutter will slow your computer down , so less is better .

   

• 9,041 Posts

  Sun, Sep 10 2017 7:58 PM

  lonniescott711:

  julio1235:

  Easiest way for me to do it Andy would be to save the photos to an external drive or a thumb drive that plugs into one of your external ports on your laptop.

  Hope this helps,  J

  +1 Or you can also send all of the photos to your email address . Its how folks saved stuff before cloud storage . But if you have the time get an external hard drive and transfer everything you want to save to it as Julio suggested . Now if the screen is just broken you can get a monitor screen and hook up and play on . But you should still get an external hardrive no matter what you decide .

  A good 1 terabyte external hard drive should be more than enough to store what ever it is you want to save . I have one and I keep all of my music and movie downloads on it 

   

  Hey, thanks both but as many will attest to here....I'm a goddamn dinosaur when it comes to computers ( still conduct business in pen and ink where possible  ;/ )

  So as I usually say to Scotthope/ Yankeejim  etc through the years..

  " Baby me, pretend I have a learning disability and go Sloooow"

  :D

   

• alosso 21,087 Posts

  Sun, Sep 10 2017 9:59 PM

  First, check how much storage is covered by the pictures. 800 megabyte go on a CD, 4.5 gigabyte go on a DVD, so if you have a drive with burning capacities and if they fit on a few (max 5, or 10 if you are a patient guy), you may save them there.

  Online clouds have limited free space, like 2 GB or 5 GB. More comes for a fee, e.g. 7 € per month for a terabyte (1,000 GB) at Microsoft OneDrive.

  The laziest option would be to extract the hard drive from the notebook and connect it to the new one with a hard drive connecting tool. This might cost
  40 €(?). You can then swap any data between the drives, even use the old one as an external drive. But beware, old drives die first!

• 9,041 Posts

  Sun, Sep 10 2017 10:37 PM

  alosso:

  First, check how much storage is covered by the pictures. 800 megabyte go on a CD, 4.5 gigabyte go on a DVD, so if you have a drive with burning capacities and if they fit on a few (max 5, or 10 if you are a patient guy), you may save them there.

  Online clouds have limited free space, like 2 GB or 5 GB. More comes for a fee, e.g. 7 € per month for a terabyte (1,000 GB) at Microsoft OneDrive.

  The laziest option would be to extract the hard drive from the notebook and connect it to the new one with a hard drive connecting tool. This might cost
  40 €(?). You can then swap any data between the drives, even use the old one as an external drive. But beware, old drives die first!

  Too much hassle it sounds,and don't understand a word tbh  lol..pen n ink i think i said last night ( if the posts get through in sequence ? )

  Not overly important really, just 5 o 6 I'd like to transfer..the important ones on film.

  Now if I'd lashed my LP collection and bought CDs n burned them here...

  I'd be frantic !!!

  Change is not always a good thing :D

   

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Sun, Sep 10 2017 11:29 PM

  You can purchase an external drive case to convert your old drive to an external USB drive for $20-$25 US currency......look at newegg.com, usually pretty cheap.

• ScottHope 10,607 Posts

  Mon, Sep 11 2017 12:40 AM

  Try typing Windows Easy Transfer into the search box above the start button on the taskbar.  : )

  If the screen does die, you can plug a cable into the back of the laptop and connect it up to another screen/TV.

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Mon, Sep 11 2017 1:53 AM

  ScottHope:

  Try typing Windows Easy Transfer into the search box above the start button on the taskbar.  : )

  Not 100% sure, but I think that was a Windows 7 feature and not on 10? It worled like Laplink......and easy.

  Only downside laplink transfers bad files as well.......result not great.

  I agree, use cloud storage like OneDrive, Google Drive,  Drop Box or even a personal cloud (I use all lol) and you have any file at your fingertips from anywhere (well either WiFi or cell coverage)......or a portable hard drive....plug and play and copy any files, photos, music etc across.

  But Andy........why one last question? You re getting me worried mate!

• ScottHope 10,607 Posts

  Mon, Sep 11 2017 2:02 AM

  Yes, it is on Win 7 and not Win 10. Whether it would work if one PC has Win10 and the other Win 7, I don't know.  8 (