Sd card or USB drive?

Fifer

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Nice. I see the read-only switch is still in evidence though.

Any idea if these are moulded or milled? I imagine the latter process would make them particularly robust.

They look pressed to me which wont be as strong as a milled or cast housing, but for most users, how robust do they really need to be?

(There's a downside to being built like a brick !!!!-house in the washing machine scenario too - the smaller and lighter they are, the less they will be shocked when being thrown around and against the drum).

zzzLazyDaisy

1jim wrote: »

Silly question, how do I know if my nc10 has a factory restore partition?

Non-techie answer - My NC10 came with a factory restore partition so there is a reasonable chance that it is standard on all NC10s.

But if you boot up and go through the f4 drill, you'll find out - you are not committed to doing anything, you can just cancel and come out of it.

EDIT - if you type 'samsung recovery solution' (without the speech marks) into the search programs and files bar (get it by clicking on windows logo, bottom left) it brings up a window, click the 'restore' option and it will take you through the process. You can do a basic restore or a full restore (from memory I think I did the basic restore, but I am not 100% sure about that).

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

I prefer a USB stick, SD Cards seem to fiddly and also brilliant.

-TangleFoot-

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

SD Cards seem [...] brilliant.

Translation error I presume? :think:

closed

1jim wrote: »

I kind of assumed deleting all of the stuff that doesn't need to be there wold help it a little, am I barking up wrong tree with that?

Yes,

post a hijackthis log and commit charge, deleting photo's won't speed it up.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

imgburn can write data to dvd if your operating system (XP?) doesn't support it

http://www.filehippo.com/download_imgburn/

Make sure you have multiple copies of any data on external media, and can read them, if you plan going down the factory restore route.

External hard disks (around £45+ for a 320GB portable) are more useful/resilient than flash drives for backup imo, not just your photos that may be of value, how would you go about reinstalling windows if the internal hard disk failed - a portable hard disk and a disk image backup http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx would be the easiest solution to that scenario.

Would also be useful for other machines if you have them

Kernel_Sanders

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Translation error I presume? :think:

Maybe he meant brittle. Judging by his username, spelling's not his strong point

Dreamnine

I prefer USB flash drives myself...

I only have one device which takes a microSD card - my phone, and I put a 32Gb card in there and won't be taking it out ever.

prowla

A photo or file that is in only one place is at risk.
We've had USB memory sticks break and/or get lost.
I keep thinks on multiple hard drives.
Incidentally, SSD drives are now ate a viable price - I've just got a 120 GB one for under £80; if I wanted it in an external enclosure, that would add something like £15 more.