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I have need to restore my Vaio M2 desktop and wish to find the best way to backup all my files. I have tried to use transfer wiz but when I choose my f drive and it searches for all my files and settings it then wont recognise any disc I load i.e. DVD or cds. My problem is I have a lot of large video flies exceeding the 4.7gb on DVDs and therefore it wont backup with record now. How can I back up my files?
Bigger than DVD? Has to be a portable hard disk. You can get some reasonable prices - USB2 and Firewire are recomended.
KL's right - £150 and lower will get you a 16Gb USB/Firewire external drive. What I use for the W1s is the Western Digital 160Gb External Media Centre - has a multi-card reader as well as the drive.
For £170 I got a 300GB Maxtor from Amazon.co.uk
Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB
No I have no regrets (like Edith Piaf) - I like using this drive, it's easy, quick, and I like the way I can hide a drive if I don't want people accessing it.
Nice and thin too, fits in my bag on the move.