Last time, (some months ago), the computer guy had to replace the motherboard. That took a long time (it came from China), he separated the hard drive and backed up everything for me.

So are you saying I can back up all my microsoft word documents? How do I do this? My dvd drive does not work, but I have a cd drive.

Can I re-format my hard drive (or can't I just have my computer re-set to factory defaults or something like that.

By the way, wouldn't backing up files possibly keep a virus (if indeed I have one), well, how do I know that a virus is not hiding in anything I back up.?

this is so confusing.

melody

Yes windows has a back up wizard - here are HP links about how to do it.
I would print or take notes on it, and read through it a few times to fully understand it, but it is fairly easy just follow the promps and use your notes.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=...f87efc6f926f13

I gave a list of info links so you can look through all to find the ones that are clearest for you.

Ive never done anything like it on a hp - but it should be straight forward.
esp if you only have one hard drive, I don't know if you have partitions on it - other than the restore partition - i think hp has that saved for the restore files.

a partition is a hard drive that is divided into sections and will have a label c, f,g,h, etc.

cd & dvd are usually d & e drives

Okay, I shall check on this tonight when Alan is watching No Ordinary Family. He has expressed one wish. SAVE MY FAVORITE PLACES on Mozilla.

They are called Bookmarks in Mozilla.

Now is this on MY side, or on the SERVER side?

Might be a stupid question but he has MANY MANY bookmarks and they are important. So do I have to save these, and if so, HOW???

Thanks much hon.

Melody

Your Bookmarks are saved on your computer only , unless you saved them somewhere else - like a cd ir flash drive.

usually when you back up your documents & settings - the bookmarks are saved too.
To be sure just go bookmarks in the FF tool bar and go to organize bookmarks.
click on import & backup - to make a saved file and save it to a location you can find easy later on.

Okay, one thing has been done (I think). I saved the bookmarks. I named it "Alan's favorite places" and saved it to my desktop. Just checked, It's there. I clicked on it and it gave me options on how to open it.

How do I open this? and when I do open it, (let's say I have reformatted my hard drive, and re-installed everything, then the Alan's Favorite places icon will be on the screen, and after I open it, what do I do with it?

I'm not kidding, I have no idea what to do with this.

Melody

just make sure that file gets saved to the cd and then when you reinstall everything copy that file back from the cd ( or flash drive which ever you use to store your backed up files & settings)

I usually save mine in my documents section - then it for sure will get copied & saved during the back up procedure.
you can drag/drop it or just make a copy and place it in the documents folder.

so after all the back ups are done and you have reinstalled windows & FF
- then when you open FF it asks if you want to import anything - say yes and select your file - find your favs or bookmarks file and click it. it should add it right back in to the program for you.
If not after you have it open go to bookmark /organize and in the same import/backup area click that and add the file in that way.

this might explain it better than I did
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/...ring-bookmarks

Hi.

I have been playing around and this is what I just did.

I found a Lightscribe HP CD-R 52X 700mb data disc

I put it in the Lightscribe rom drive.

I went to my desktop and saw the icon "Alan's favorites" and I clicked on it, clicked copy, then went to my computer, saw the Drive in which I had the lightscribe disc and right clicked and selected COPY.

So it copied the whole thing.

I then wanted to see what it looked like.

I went to 'my computer", saw the disc in the Lightscribe thing, and I clicked on "open", it asked me "what do you want to use to open this', I selected "Wordpad" because I have no idea what I am doing.

Well, what was there was all kinds of nonsense. It had given me many options to open this file. ONe of which was Firefox.

I did not know if I was supposed to click on that.

Please tell me what I am supposed to do with the copy of Alan's favorites that I now have on a Lightscribe HP CD-R52X (or am I even supposed to have done this).

I am still learning. Never did this before.

thanks much

Melody

P.S. I went to the Back up Windows XP thing and it says you have to insert a Windows CD Rom, ...I don't have one.

This is VERY confusing for me. I know it's a walk in the park for young ones, but this is so confusing to me.

I have another stupid question. Can't I buy a flash drive, copy all my documents, etc, (does this include email?), and copy all this stuff to my flash drive, then re-format my hard drive so it's like it was when it was new, then I can stick the flash drive in the flash drive slot (I think it's the Compactflash1/11 think on the front of my computer???)

and then I can copy the stuff from my flash drive back into my computer?

Or is this NOT feasible.

I am trying to go easy on my brain here. I have NEVER copied anything, (I did burn one thing once but that's a long time ago), I have never used a flash drive or a memory stick/pro or a Smart Media /xD or any of the things in the front part of my computer. It's a HP Media Center and it's 7 years old but I've never really used it as a media center if you know what I mean.

I just do my Flip videos and that's fine with me.

Any help here is very much appreciated.

melody

Yes a flash drive, travel drive, or USB stick all the same thing...more or less - that would be better and last longer than a cd that can get scratched etc.

Go to your hard drive icon and right click - go down to properties - then you should see a pop up page that will show & tell how much is used - mine says 39.5 G used.

your HD should have 2 partitions - 1 is for the recovery/restore files & 1 for the xp system that you use.



[HP computers that ship with Microsoft Windows XP do not come with recovery CDs. Instead, they use a hidden space (partition) on the hard drive to store the recovery information. The use of a separate partition provides a convenient process that eliminates the use of recovery discs that may be lost or scratched. A system recovery from the hard drive may not be possible in some circumstances. Your computer may contain Recovery Disc Creation software. Recovery discs for Windows XP are available from HP for a minimal cost. See Obtaining Recovery Discs for ordering information. ]
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...ct=434459#N417

just guessed on the model number for your media center - but you can look up the exact model - but I suppose the directions are pretty much the same.



On the bookmarks if FF is an option then click it to open. that way you can verify that they re saved.

as long as you used the copy option , the original file should still be on the desktop also correct?
move option moves the files - copy makes a copy of the files.
that file on a cd is good - good practice too. now you know they will be there no matter what.

*P.S. I went to the Back up Windows XP thing and it says you have to insert a Windows CD Rom, ...I don't have one. *
I think it was asking for your restore cds, did you ever make them and/or is the section(partition) for the files still on your hard drive

Jo. I'm following you so far, I'll go to the properties thing and see how much is used. Will let you know.

Now here is where I get confused. When I either click on the desktop icon that says "Alan's favorites", or I pop in the cd rom that has the same file, HOW DO I OPEN IT UP? When I try to view it in wordpad, it's all jumbled.

What is the correct program to open up Favorites so that it looks like it does when Alan clicks on the Bookmarks up on top of the screen?

Thanks much

Still learning. lol
Melody
P.S. Oh, just to update you, it just might not be my computer that is affecting the internet connection. The guy at Verizon just messaged me saying something about speed and upstream connection and it might be the NID and that's why they want to come back to my house.
THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS 4 APPOINTMENTS AGO!!

AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH
lol