You will free up space by deleting programs you aren't using, but
depending on the programs, it probably won't be very much. How much data
are you talking about transferring? Are any other partitions besides C
listed? there may be a recovery partition that you could steal, if you
don't care about ever recovering the machine or if you already have
recovery CD's burned. BTW, what OS is running on this machine?
When you ask about additional memory, are you talking about RAM or hard
drive space? How much RAM is there now? Prices on memory and hard drives
only come down, so finding hardware for older systems can end up costing
you enough to make it worth buying a real cheap low end system. Since
it's a laptop, you'd have to replace the drive that's there, which would
mean a lot of work reinstalling Windows onto the new hard drive,
assuming you have a license and the install media for Windows. Depending
on how much RAM you have and how much the laptop will support, you may
be able to add more, but this probably won't buy you anything when it
comes to storing media files on the hard drive. Something like
Crucial.com at http://www.crucial.com/ can take you through the RAM
upgrade process.
You could use an external drive, but I think you'd find the speed
frustrating.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 1/7/2011 3:35 PM, Colin Phelan wrote:
Thanks all for your great suggestions.
I have taken the easy option at this stage and dusted down an old lap top
and have taken all files well most off it.
Then using a 4G SD card have started coping my music across
This is taking some time as the Dell Latitude only has USB1 connections but
that's ok.
I did not realise HD was so small as already telling me is full, that's
where I need further assistance please.
I'm a bit thick when it comes to this so here goes
Local disc (c) when clicking on properties is roughly telling me it is 20G.
Is this the whole size of the lap top including programmes or will I free up
lots of space by deleting programmes not assocatied with music.
I from memory thought it was 40G but may well have been wrong.
If not what is best?
Buy additional memory for the machine, will this be possible?
External hard drive will this be a problem as only USB1?
Once again thanks all for your support
Regards
Colin
-----Original Message-----
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: 05 January 2011 17:07
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
I can think of a few options. One would be to use an FM transmitter. You
could attach an FM transmitter to your PC and then broadcast the music
from your PC and pick it up on your stereo, assuming you have a FM
receiver as part of your stereo. I don't have one myself, but I'm sure
others can chime in with more details, opinions and information.
You can also use a few different technologies to broadcast music from
your PC over wifi or bluetooth to a receiver that you could then attach
to your stereo. Apple TV and Airport Express would be two such examples,
and others can speak to them with much greater detail than I can.
A third option is to go with an accessible portable media player with
enough storage and then attaching it to your stereo system. Even if your
stereo system doesn't have a lot of connectors, you should be able to
find connectors that run from your MP3 player into the auxiliary input
of your stereo receiver. Note that you'd still have to have this level
of connection if you were using a wifi or bluetooth receiver. You could
avoid this with the FM transmitter though. This is the route I went. Not
because it was superior to any of the other methods, but rather it just
fit my needs.
With this method, I have a portable MP3 player with most of my music. I
can use this when traveling, exercising, sitting in the waiting room or
whatever. I can also attach it to the stereo in my living room, the
powered external speakers in my bedroom or the audio input jack of my
wife's car. For MP3 players, you have a few different options. You can
go with an off the shelf MP3 player that will run Rockbox. This would be
the cheapest route. You could go with an iPod. Finally, you could go
with an MP3 player tailored specifically for the blind, such as the
Booksense. Each have their relative strenghts.
That's my $0.02.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 1/4/2011 2:43 PM, Colin Phelan wrote:
Hi All,
I wonder if you can assist.
For use whilst on the move I rip all my music directly to MP3. I still
use a traditional hi fi for listening at home I would like for a few
reasons to pack away the c d 's and use something I can connect to my
hi fi to listen to music at home. I am using a basic separates system
that includes a Cyrus amplifyer with little or no fancy connections.
I do not need an ipod for listening on the move otherwise I may go down
that
route.
Is there some sort of hard drive I could use that is accessible and I can
just copy all the MP3's to.
Yes when it comes to hi fi I am about 15 years out of date but hey the
Cirus
amp used to be leading edge and it still works!
Thanks for your assistance
Colin
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