Hard drive troubles

[ubeaut]

Usually the shop where you purchased the HD but if you have proof of purchase you should be able to get it anywhere there is a reasonable nice software sales person.

[Cliff Rogers]

...bought a 1gb flashDrive ...store all my required data in "My Documents" folder and copy to G drive .... Almost idiot proof.....

Don't forget to get a copy of the things that aren't stored in the 'My Docs' folder.....
Your favourites, your e-mail & your address book all live somewhere else, depending on what you use for browsing & mail.

[macca2]

Cliff, could you please advise me how to save copies of both Favorites and Address book to a folder I can have in My Documents.
Thanks Macca

[Cliff Rogers]

Depends on your system....

If you are using Windows & MS Internet Explorer, your favourites are in a folder called 'Favorites'.

If you are using Windows & Outlook Express, your address book is kept in a folder called Address Book.

They are both in a different place for different versions of windows.

'Favorites', for WIN98, is in the 'Windows' folder, but for WIN2K & XP it is in the 'Documents and Settings' folder under your name or whatever name you log on top the computer as.

Your addresses are kept in a file the same name as the one you log on to the computer as with a file extension of .wab & for WIN98 it is in the 'Windows/Application Data/Microsoft/Address Book' folder. For WIN2K & XP, look in 'Documents and Settings/{yourname}/Application Data/Microsoft/Address Book'.

If you are using anything other than MS Internet Explorer, you are on your own but there should be a way to save or export your favourites or bookmarks & the same goes for your address book if you are using anything other than Outlook Express.

Hope that helps.

[macca2]

Cliff, I am running Windows 98 SE. I can export my Address book to an Excel sheet and save to My Docs, but I dont have the know how to save a copy of Favorites.
As you can probably see, I'm not exactly a computer buff.

thanks again
macca

[macca2]

Cliff, I have found the export and import functions on both my address book and my favorites and successfully saved them to my flash drive.(G drive)
To prove all was well I deleted favorites and addresses and imported from G drive and they all came back as was.

Thanks for your help.

Macca