Re: How do I back up my music?

Hi Cindy,

You're welcome and sorry about the notebook mix-up.

40 GB's of music files should fit on about 6 CD's. That should not take to long to burn.

Backing up to a flash drive is another option. If you go this route, you could alway find a PC with a DVD burner and burn the files from the flash drive to a DVD for safe keeping.


Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

Cindy wrote:
Hi Bert,
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I do not have a notebook computer, my computer is a full size with a monitor and a hard drive on a computer table.
I have over 4 GB of music, if I burn all of the music to CD's that sounds like a lot of CD's to me to buy and a lot of hours to make copies of the music. Yes I have the ability to burn CD's and have done that lots of time.
Wouldn't it be better to put the music on a USB flash drive and save it that way? I can buy a 4 GB and possibly a 2 GB USB flash drive which would give me more space if I want to add more songs to my collection. What do you think?
Thank you
Cindy


"Bert Kinney" <bert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u9e0QLs1HHA.3788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Cindy,

Place the memory card into the notebook and copy all the files to a folder on the desktop. This is actually a form of backing up. The music files are in more than one place now.

The safest way to backup the music files is to burn them to a CD and move them to a safe place, or two. Do you have the ability to burn CD's with the Dell 4700 notebook? And if so is there burning software installed?

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

Cindy wrote:
I need some help please. I have over 1300 songs in Dell Musicmatch. I know I need to back them up, but I have no idea how to do this.
I use a MP3 player, and I have put music on the 1 GB memory card that is with my MP3 player. I was able to that, but I have never worked with a USB flash drive.
Do I buy a USB flash drive and copy all my music to it as a backup? If so....I have no idea how to do that. I have a Dell computer Dimension 4700. There is a slot in the front to insert the flash drive. I made the mistake of not having a DVD slot put on the computer, I have only a CD slot as I knew I would not be watching movies on my computer, I know..... a big mistake.
Thank you for any help. It is much appreciated.


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: VideoRedo
    ... It works, but it takes hours to burn a 1 hr show, ... It won't let you see what is on a DVD, and you always have to erase the ... the notebook on the wireless network, and have the notebook play the ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
  • Re: How do I back up my music?
    ... I have over 4 GB of music, if I burn all of the music to CD's that ... Place the memory card into the notebook and copy all the files to a folder ... The safest way to backup the music files is to burn them to a CD and move ... a big mistake. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)
  • Re: How do I back up my music?
    ... I have 1420 songs. ... music files for archival purposes. ... notebook computer, my computer is a full size with a monitor and a hard ... I have over 4 GB of music, if I burn all of the music to CD's that ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)
  • Re: FC4 burning DVD I/O issue
    ... > I try to on-the-fly burn a DVD (lack of place on my notebook) with> XCDRoast. ... Using xcdroast I believe you need to use growisofs first to create the image. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Backing up files from My Music
    ... You just set your burning software to create a "DATA" CD. ... it to burn a copy of all the files in question to a blank disc in their ... When I use my burning software to make backup copies of my music files (I ... choose to instead burn all of your individual music files to CD en masse, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.music)