needs a new HDD. the problem is, a tech person is going to come in, take my old HDD and give me a new one, which is bad because the majority of my data is pirated. i have three options:
-buy a new HDD and transfer my data to it (advantages= no FBI charges, i get 1 tb space [old HDD was 320])
-let him come in and pray he doesnt get the old HDD working (advantages= free HDD)
-buy a mac (advantages= no FBI charges, better graphics, memory, larger HDD, this problem wont ever happen again, no BSoD, i wont have to talk to a Hindu guy for over an hour, better visuals)
i could use “ROBOCOPY C:\Users\REA\Desktop\ F:” to move my files but i forgot what the path for an external device is. i also have a Linux tower right next to me but i dont know how to transfer from one internal HDD to another.
You could share the files, then delete them off of the original computer. That would take about a day or so, depending upon how many files you have. Or burn everything onto cds, then burn (literally) the cds to get rid of them. Or use a 128gb flash drive.
good: the people who take the HDDs dont even care about piracy and wont report it
bad: i cant get the files off my HDD so i lost everything
bonus good: all i really wanted to back up was my anime and manga i have saved (30+ gb) which i can download from torrents (i made a list on a different forum with all the anime and manga i had).
Wow i don’t know about you but If i lost everything I would literally cry. I have approx. 80745 items in my Itunes. Money isn’t the problem (if it was i would have killed myself) but the hours i put tranferring all my CDS into one computer… the time i spent on limewire/napster, and the few hundred dollars i actually invested in itunes store… it sends a shiver down my spine just thinking about it.
im just glad the majority of the music i have is on my Zune so i can just dump them off of it when i get my new HDD. the only problem is all the creative things that ive made that i never uploaded (file type icons, photoshoped pictures ive made, etc) are gone. i can remake them, but its just like having old memories burn away…
i feel a little teary eyed now =’(
EDIT:
ALL FIXED! a guy came in and gave me a new one. now for reconstruction. im going to need keygens, cracks and torrents ASAP!
