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Title: Transfering Music
Post by: Migrant River on February 01, 2009, 05:53:26 pm

I have an older Dell laptop. I was going wait until I had a better machine to upgrade Media center; Now I am getting a lot of errors in my hard drive. I bought an external hard drive, What should I do to make sure no music files are lost. I was going to download media center to my external and transfer all music from this Media center. Good idea? 

Title: Re: Transfering Music
Post by: JimH on February 06, 2009, 02:06:14 pm

Just copy the files to the new portable.  Do you plan to upgrade the laptop hard disk?

Title: Re: Transfering Music
Post by: Migrant River on February 07, 2009, 08:57:25 pm

Thanks for the reply.  I am not sure about upgrading the hard drive; everything else is o.k, but I was not sure if just upgrading on a three year old laptop would be worth the cost.  I will most likely replace the laptop with a new or newer( I'll check ebay) with more storage and faster cpu. I tried to download an upgraded media center to my e drive, instead of downloading to the correct drive, it tried to install on c drive with media 12, I thought I had lost everything, it did eliminate every play list, but I was able to get 12 back. I do I download media center to e drive. and not screw up what I have?  Thanks. Mike

Title: Re: Transfering Music
Post by: JimH on February 08, 2009, 08:07:37 am

Under File/Library, you can backup your library. 

Uninstall MC if you want to reinstall to a new location.

Good luck.