memory sticks

[captainkirk]

what size of memory stick would i have to get.,that would . save video,music,and most of all , all the games that i have put on by cd so that i do not have to reload all of them agian because my pc screws up from time to time so i have to put it back to as if i have just got it from the shop. can you help please.???

[HWKE]

Probably one which hasn't been made yet. I think your requirements exceed the capacity of current memory sticks. Have you thought of an external hard drive? They are held in an enclosure and plug into the USB port on your computer. You can store on them just as if it was a very large memory stick.

[fo3nix]

As HWKE says, you'll want a USB hard drive. If you already have your stuff on your computer, you could use a program like Norton Ghost which does a perfect backup of your internal drive. If something goes wrong you can always revert to the backup drive.

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/produc ts/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/116092/rb/276 05459172

[vehelpfulguy]

Here is an 8Gb USB Key for about �36.

You can get a lot of files in 8Gb

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Mem ory+Portable/USB+Pen+Drives/8Gb+EZ+Disk+USB+Pe n+Drive?productId=27017

[vehelpfulguy]

btw, although you can put your video and music on a USB Key or external hard drive, the same does not apply to games.

When you install a game, not only does it copy the files to your PCs hard disk, but it probably also updates some files within Windows (like the registry file for example).

If you had a new Windows install, and just copied the games files accross to the hard disk I would guess a lot of the games would not work.

(I am not a games expert but the above is certainly true for other types of Windows programs so I assume it is also true for games).

[vehelpfulguy]

The suggestion from fo3nix about using Ghost (or a similar program) is a good one.

I have two hard drives in the my PC.

After I have done an install of Windows on my "main" hard drive I use Ghost to take an image of it and copy it to my "second" hard drive.

If I want to re-install Windows I just use Ghost to "install" the ghost image on my second hard drive.

Using Ghost I can get a brand new install of Windows in about 5 minutes.