Computer woes: advice appreciated

[danaeris]

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I'm using my iPod to back up my data as it is 40gigs, and then I will selectively return things to the freshly formatted hard drive of Lothlorien. It may take a while, but its free.

More on how to handle back ups shortly. Thank you, all, for your advice.

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[nathanjw]

I recommend having (and using for this) an external drive. It's good for this purpose and then you have a place to keep backups that isn't subject to the same risks as your laptop.

That said, the that LaCie is pretty expensive. You can get a 160G external USB/FW drives (non-mobile style) for about US$110 from a pretty respectable retailer. You don't need anything Mac-specific.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822173011

I use something very similar to that for regular backups for my laptop; I have a short script that does a full backup, and takes about 30 minutes to run.