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Originally Posted by Willowy1
Backup files?  Oh my. I've never contemplated losing all my images before 
Maybe I should think about getting a CD burner or something and saving all my stuff to that?
What is the cheapest way of doing this anyway? Is it to buy a cd burner or is there another way? My computer is quite old and doesn't run fast at the best of times (Windows 98SE) so maybe saving my images elsewhere would free up some disk space!!!!
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There seems to be varying opinions as to whether CD or DVD has the best longevity (do a search on google). I have had corrupted CDs and DVDs, and over a 40 year career I lost 13 hard drives but much of the data on those hard drives was recoverablle so I would always go for hard drive, doesn't really matter whether internal of external, but if your pictures matter please do something there's nothing worse than losing images, worst of all are those family shots that mean so much