I have a lot of pics anf films from my trips over LOS. They are all on this laptop but i am a tad worried i'll lose them if the laptop crashes, or the more likely scenario is stupid me deleates them, it's almost happened a few times.

So what kind of disk do i buy? and how easy is it to put them on it?

I have 1.78 GB worth of pics if thats any help.

Thansk in advance from thick Q

you have many option to save your pics/movies.

1/ usb memory drive
2/extarnel hd drive
3/ on cdr or cd-rw
4/ on dvd or dvd-rw
5/ u can always put them on some free webspace like this http://www.007webpro.com/ just regiter upload them.
6/ u can upload them on some kind photo sharing like this http://www.flickr.com/ still possible to keep them private


and there are many more ways to save your pics and movies.

chieck also this out http://www.myphotoalbum.com/


i hope u get some info out of it.

greets

sponge bob

Thanks Bob. i want to put them on a disk and in my "Thailand Box" that i have with little things i have collected since i started going.

You can fit all the pics onto a dvd, you need a program like Nero to create a Data Disk, you can fit them all one disk then.

on my system at home, i have
1.) 2 harddrives on my system (it double saves my info)
2.) 500 external HD (http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=224)
3.) i then copy everything on a CD

im a photographer, so all my stuff is SACRED. I dont risk anything.

If u have win xp u can do it without any other program win xp has build in program to burn cd-dvd

and there are some better programs on the net to burn cd or dvd,and easy to use.

save then to a usb disk and uplod them to fx a gmail acount where you can keet alot of pic. If you do this you can alwayes view the pic form a internet.

I use this one http://www.007webpro.com/ and it has a nice control panel.
If you register u get 7 gig free space.Thats a lot of pics.

I've got windows vista something or other. So got windows Media centere which might have the softwear for doing it???

Collect all your files together, select all of them, then click the Burn tab at the window top. Insert the DVD and continue.

I've started keeping multiple copies of DVD backups. One is my 'usable' backup which is readily accessible and the other is my 'archive' backup which is pretty much locked away and I will only use it to create a new 'usable' backup if that gets damaged. I used to just keep all my media files on a seperate internal HD in my system until I lost over 100GB of data when a 160GB HD died - I had a few files copied onto other media and others that I had already processed but I lost almost all the original unedited files. I still have the HD in case I ever decide I need to use a data recovery service. On my vacation to LOS last year I had a 1GB Flash card go bad. I luckily copied most of the good photos off to my laptop so the loss was minimal but it could have been worse. I've also had the unlucky experience of backup cd/dvds get damaged - thats why I now keep multiple copies.

This year I plan to copy everything off my cameras daily to my laptop and if possible FTP the files to one of my webservers every few days as well as burn them to CD/DVD.

Don't ever put your important data into single harddrive. If you have to use HDD, make sure you are on RAID setup. (2 hdd's working like one, so if one fails other keeps goin)