Thank you in advance for any guidance you are able to provide. I feel I am fairly technology savvy however, there is so much on the line with this much data I would feel more comfortable knowing ahead of time what to expect and look out for.
I purchased a new laptop and a USB 3.0 Hard-Drive Docking Station. I would like to take the hard-drive our of my old computer and use it as a storing location. The drive has thousands of embroidery designs as well as vector cutting designs and I do not want to loose any of those. I was doing to move them to a back-up, format the hard-drive and move them back so I could assess them however, the large amount of files gave a move time of over a day! I do have a back-up but I only transfer the new designs for the week so I had no idea it would take so long to move everything and I do not want to have to do that if I do not have to.
This leads me to my questions:
1)What is the best why to remove the operating system form a hard drive while keeping the data stored with in the file structure in place.
2) I would like to uninstall all software also what is the best why to accomplish this task?
3)How can I get all the straggling files that are left anytime you uninstall any program?
4) Is there anything else I need to do to get the drive ready to be used as a external drive?
5) Is there any special set-up or configuration I need to do in order to access this docking station as a drive or will it assign it a drive letter and I proceed as usual?
6) If you have a better idea on how to manage this amount of information when moving to a new computer I am always open to advice.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I purchased a new laptop and a USB 3.0 Hard-Drive Docking Station. I would like to take the hard-drive our of my old computer and use it as a storing location. The drive has thousands of embroidery designs as well as vector cutting designs and I do not want to loose any of those. I was doing to move them to a back-up, format the hard-drive and move them back so I could assess them however, the large amount of files gave a move time of over a day! I do have a back-up but I only transfer the new designs for the week so I had no idea it would take so long to move everything and I do not want to have to do that if I do not have to.
This leads me to my questions:
1)What is the best why to remove the operating system form a hard drive while keeping the data stored with in the file structure in place.
2) I would like to uninstall all software also what is the best why to accomplish this task?
3)How can I get all the straggling files that are left anytime you uninstall any program?
4) Is there anything else I need to do to get the drive ready to be used as a external drive?
5) Is there any special set-up or configuration I need to do in order to access this docking station as a drive or will it assign it a drive letter and I proceed as usual?
6) If you have a better idea on how to manage this amount of information when moving to a new computer I am always open to advice.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.