Electronics

[sipp]

I'm getting a new laptop but my old one is still (barely) usable and I want to get only a few things from it to the new one (pictures, favorite lists)-- so my really really computer illiterate husband ( although admittedly I'm not an expert either) ---can use the old one for his e-mail basically-( he's not getting near the new one!) Anyhow the old one is on it's last legs- the hinge broke on it and the screen is gerri-rigged with tape to hold the screen in the proper reading angle although it works ok and has windows 7--it's just if the screen actually does fall off eventually- all the wiring etc goes with it and everything will be lost.So is there an inexpensive way to get what I want and still leave most intact?TIA

[hckynut]

Check this link out it may help you.

Transfering Files windows-7

[glb613]

Why not connect the laptop to a monitor?

[susan_ca]

I am not computer-savvy either.

I save important files on a thumb drive in addition to hard drive...... as a backup if not for anything else. In your case, because you only want to transfer a few things, you can either save those files onto a thumb drive or save them onto a cloud and download them onto your new computer.

Thumb drives are very affordable.

[Lynnj]

On 4/23/2014 susan_ca said:

I am not computer-savvy either.

I save important files on a thumb drive in addition to hard drive...... as a backup if not for anything else. In your case, because you only want to transfer a few things, you can either save those files onto a thumb drive or save them onto a cloud and download them onto your new computer.

Thumb drives are very affordable.

I agree with using a Thumb Drive to get the files you want from the old to the new. They are pretty cheap, and can be purchased everywhere.

Its like a little flat stick, and you will plus it into he USB drive on your old computer. Then locate everything you want to move from old to new, and copy/paste that to the USB Thumb Drive. When done, eject the Thumb Drive from the old computer, and plug it into the USB drive on the new computer. Find that on the new computer, click open, and copy/paste everything to the new computer. Before ejecting, delete all the files on the Thumb Drive (you won't need them, unless you want to be sure to have a back up).

[Trix]

Flash drives are nice, I highly recommend a Click-Free. You may want to invest in something like this for the new computer to use as your data back up source, but it also serves to copy files from one PC (or MAC) onto another. I used my Click Free for a very effortlessly efficient copy of files from my old Vista PC to a new one I bought in 2012.

[glb613]

Flash drives are fine for transferring data from one computer to another. They are terrible for a backup because they are easily corrupted or erased.

[151949]

On 4/23/2014 susan_ca said:

I am not computer-savvy either.

I save important files on a thumb drive in addition to hard drive...... as a backup if not for anything else. In your case, because you only want to transfer a few things, you can either save those files onto a thumb drive or save them onto a cloud and download them onto your new computer.

Thumb drives are very affordable.

I do the same thing - save everything to a thumb drive.

[glb613]

On 4/23/2014 happy housewife said:

On 4/23/2014 susan_ca said:

I am not computer-savvy either.

I save important files on a thumb drive in addition to hard drive...... as a backup if not for anything else. In your case, because you only want to transfer a few things, you can either save those files onto a thumb drive or save them onto a cloud and download them onto your new computer.

Thumb drives are very affordable.

I do the same thing - save everything to a thumb drive.

You better have a second copy if this is how you back up your files. Flash/thumb drives should never be used as a backup device.

[susan_ca]

On 4/24/2014 glb613 said:

On 4/23/2014 happy housewife said:

On 4/23/2014 susan_ca said:

I am not computer-savvy either.

I save important files on a thumb drive in addition to hard drive...... as a backup if not for anything else. In your case, because you only want to transfer a few things, you can either save those files onto a thumb drive or save them onto a cloud and download them onto your new computer.

Thumb drives are very affordable.

I do the same thing - save everything to a thumb drive.

You better have a second copy if this is how you back up your files. Flash/thumb drives should never be used as a backup device.

I think you misunderstood the word "backup" here. I am not using it to backup my computer SYSTEM, just some files.