LynLyn wrote:
OK - first let's establish that I am a technophobic middle aged mum who
knows not a lot about computer hardware......my daughter has come home from
school and requested the purchase of a memory stick to make life easy
transfering info from our home PC to school and vice-versa for projects.
She also tells me that I would find one useful for backing up our harddrive
instead of worrying myself to death that one day I'm going to lose all my
info from our computer.

So can any kind person please tell me what I should be looking for, how much
it is likely to cost and where I can get one from (preferably online).

Many many thanks in advance for any help you can offer - and apologies for
cross posting and maybe using the wrong newsgroups...

Lynette


Hello,

I think your daughter has a good point. I would get one and back up all
the useful stuff you need, stuff like your personal data (basically
everything in your my documents folder - word docs and excel
spreadsheets etc), stuff that you wouldn't want to lose. I wouldn't
suggest you use it to back up all your programs etc., there are better
ways of doing this.
Have a look at how much data you want to backup and then at least double
i (or treble it) and get the next size memory stick up from that. Have a
look on somewhere like amazon or dabs, they are fairly reasonably price
on there.

Mike