Noelle Kel
I have a first generation iPod Touch, and live in fear of it suddenly dying on me. I've had it a good three years, which is seriously pushing it for iPod products. I was thinking about purchasing a new iPod Touch, but I wanted to know if it was possible to put the backup/sync info from my 1st gen iPod Touch to the newer one.
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A) your iPod life-span theory applies to hard drive devices, not flash memory. B) In spite of A, you do need to be concerned with backing up your content in addition to the iPod backup feature in iTunes. C) You should be backing it up now. You should have been backing it up all along regardless of future iPods.
While it's great to be able to download directly to the device, it's more complicated to then transfer that content to the computer than it is to download to the computer in the first place. Even in the case of downloading to the computer then syncing the iPod, you need at least one ADDITIONAL copy of any and every file that you don't want to lose, especially those that you paid for. Obviously, the time to institute a back up plan is before you need it. If you have back up copies, syncing and organizing content on a new or additional iPod is going to be quite simple. I wouldn't count on that being the case if you're going to do it from the backup/sync info, as you call it. That's great for iTunes purchases, but not so much for the other content such as contacts, photos, notes, home videos or even songs imported from CDs or from other online sellers.
So, there's not really a "yes" or "no" answer to your question. My best advice is to get serious about other back up and worry about your iPod dying when the time comes. And, FYI: with a free Hotmail account, you get 25GB free online storage from Sky Drive. Off-site is the safest method for back up. Uploading can be time consuming and each file can't be more than 50MB, but it's perfect for song files; and, you can't beat free.
A) your iPod life-span theory applies to hard drive devices, not flash memory. B) In spite of A, you do need to be concerned with backing up your content in addition to the iPod backup feature in iTunes. C) You should be backing it up now. You should have been backing it up all along regardless of future iPods.
While it's great to be able to download directly to the device, it's more complicated to then transfer that content to the computer than it is to download to the computer in the first place. Even in the case of downloading to the computer then syncing the iPod, you need at least one ADDITIONAL copy of any and every file that you don't want to lose, especially those that you paid for. Obviously, the time to institute a back up plan is before you need it. If you have back up copies, syncing and organizing content on a new or additional iPod is going to be quite simple. I wouldn't count on that being the case if you're going to do it from the backup/sync info, as you call it. That's great for iTunes purchases, but not so much for the other content such as contacts, photos, notes, home videos or even songs imported from CDs or from other online sellers.
So, there's not really a "yes" or "no" answer to your question. My best advice is to get serious about other back up and worry about your iPod dying when the time comes. And, FYI: with a free Hotmail account, you get 25GB free online storage from Sky Drive. Off-site is the safest method for back up. Uploading can be time consuming and each file can't be more than 50MB, but it's perfect for song files; and, you can't beat free.
How do I use my laptop hard drive in a desktop computer?
chihuahual
Last night, my registry crashed and will not let me start up my computer (even in safe mode). I have read where you can take a hard drive and use it as a slave drive in another computer to back up files before reinstalling windows. I have a Toshiba laptop and my mom has an HP desktop. Is it possible to use her computer to do my backup? If so, how? Thank you for any info.
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Yes and no, if your files are set to private when you first created the user account, taking it to another PC wont access them.
Yes you can get a converter, depend on the type of HDD, if its IDE, then you need a 2.5" -> 3.5" converter, if its SATA, then you just need the correct cable in teh desktop.
You can rescue the registry manually from one of the backup restore points, , but its not that simple, and you also need tools like ERD or some boot disk that allows NTFS reading/writing
Yes and no, if your files are set to private when you first created the user account, taking it to another PC wont access them.
Yes you can get a converter, depend on the type of HDD, if its IDE, then you need a 2.5" -> 3.5" converter, if its SATA, then you just need the correct cable in teh desktop.
You can rescue the registry manually from one of the backup restore points, , but its not that simple, and you also need tools like ERD or some boot disk that allows NTFS reading/writing
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