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Originally Posted by red98vett

Thanks for posting these with the sizes - I need to reformat (restore) my computer too - I'm having email problems and can't open anything in PDF format and it glitches up on me

I have ALL my pics ...my card and label orders..... not to mention years of work on my computer so can't afford to do anything till I back it all up - I was going to do it to DVD but holy cow - It would have taken me 4 days

You are more than welcome!

You most definitely need to have an external hard drive. From what I understand, you have so many valuable things that it would be disastrous to lose any of it.

An 80GB would be fine for you with the pictures and all, but if you want to play it safe go for the 500GB one and then you really do not have to worry. They also have 320GB. Look for the best price.

Also it is easier to recall them when you plug the USB in and keep the HD as an extension. Shuffling through a CD (and just the arduous task of saving to a CD) can be more difficult.

The external Hard Drive becomes Drive E: in addition to Local Drive C; (which stays there also) on your desktop (probably under MY COMPUTER) .. Drive D: is your disk drive, where the CDs go. You do not lose that either.

all you have to do is right click START , EXPLORE and then either use COPY TO or SEND TO {drive E:}. It may take a while but you do not have to monitor it.

But be careful, the only reason I have 3 is because I bid on so many and then won 3 of them. I did not plan to get 3. But I did not want to back out of any of the contracts.
Good Luck!