[ale] hardware to back up a Dell laptop

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

Courtney,

Do you have another machine you can access across a 100mb LAN?

If so, you can put a copy of your data there at no cost at a reasonable speed.

Or, you can buy a empty usb laptop drive carrier for about $10.  Then
you remove the current drive from you laptop and put it in the
carrier.  Then you can connect that to any PC you have and make a
backup.  Then when your done put the drive back in the laptop.

Or, a external USB drive is closer to $100

Or, I have a couple USB connected DVD writers and that works great,
but I don't remember what they cost.  Less than $100 I think.

Greg

On Jan 6, 2008 9:17 AM, Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I have an old Dell Latitude laptop which has only a ROM player and want to
> be able to backup this machine [18 GB].
>
> What hardware would be the least expensive and reliable ?
>
> Is there an inexpensive ROM burner available from a 3rd party that I could
> substitute for the player ?
>
> I looked at Fry's zip drives yesterday but it would cost a good % of the
> machine's worth for one that would back up the HD.
>
> Suggestions appreciated,
>
> Courtney
>
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