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our ignorance is showing

The computer turned itself off a lot today, so I’m trying to get files off the hard drive–I’ve emailed myself all the Erik and Laura-Marie Magazines and functionally ills, for example. More important, maybe, are all the photos I have on this hard drive that I really like having, but there are hundreds, maybe thousands (baby pictures of my nieces and nephew, other photos of family and friends). I couldn’t even begin to email them all to myself. I wish there were a way to take this computer’s hard drive and install it into my new computer as an extra hard drive. It’s possible, but anyone I know who could do this lives far, far away.

I would get a flash drive and put all the photos on a flash drive, but this computer’s USB ports are all broken, which is one of the many reasons I need a new computer. Ideally, this computer and the new computer could be networked, and I could transfer tons of files from the old to the new, but Erik and I don’t know how to make that kind of network.

By Laura-Marie

Good at listening to the noise until it makes sense.

4 replies on “our ignorance is showing”

Yes, I’m running XP. Yes, we have an ethernet cable, Erik tells me. I am moved by your desire to help me, Anonymice. I think when Erik is done doing this project for our friend P (I don’t think I’ve blogged about this) I’ll request that he go into the control panel and try to make our network be the kind of network where files can be shared. Thank you!

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