[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Western Digital/dvd drive backup issue

[Umesh]

Tracy,

I suggest re-thinking the whole process. Consider backing up to a solid
state hard drive.

Umesh

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 6:13 PM Tracy Marks via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us>
wrote:

> Hello folks -
> I'm a very inactive member on this list who is not very tech savvy apart
> from spending 20 years using and  teaching Photoshop, and basic Windows
> navigation and customization skills. I am however, quite incompetent,
> when it comes to hardware, so am not likely to open my computer (an 2016
> Lenovo desktop, using Windows 10, soon to be replaced).
>
> My question following initial explanation:
> I have been transferring all my files to my quite old but functional
> Western Digital My Book backup drive. No problem with that. However I'm
> getting a new computer next week, with Windows 11, and intend to
> transfer my files from the backup drive (unless I get help setting up
> wifi, and find it easier to do with wi fi) to the new HP Windows 11
> computer.
>
> One way or another, I intend to connect the backup drive to the new
> computer.
>
> The trouble is that the software for the backup drive is on a dvd inside
> my dvd drive, where it's been since I first installed it since the dvd
> drive became stuck at that point.
>
> I've tried every method (apart from opening the computer - which I can't
> do - and taking out the dvd drive) of trying to unstick it. Almost every
> how-to site online speaks of using a paperclip in the hole on the
> outside of the drive but there is no such hole on my drive. And when I
> open the outside cover, the dvd drive itself is about two inches inside
> it with no nubs, holes etc. of any kind for nudging it.
>
> But -- My main question, however, is:
>
> Will I need the installation software for my My Book external drive in
> order to access that drive on the new computer? And if so, well, I'll
> need help unsticking that drive....).
>
> I'm really not likely to need that drive on the old computer though
> unless I need it to get out that installation disc.
>
> ADDENDUM
> Come to think of it, I don't even know if a 6 year old My Book will work
> with Windows 11, so all my backups would not be of any use for file
> transfer anyway (500 gb, by the way, and having just gone through a
> nightmare with OneDrive -- never again will I count on the Clouds for
> backup).
>
> Damn. Should I just do a transfer via wifi?
>
> Tracy Marks
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