MB stand for megabyte. If you look at your files in the folders, most of them will say something like 2KB - 2 kilobytes. A megabtye is 1000 kilobytes. A gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes, 1,000,000 kilogbytes. The external drives you mention at WalMart are not big enough to do much good. You can get thumb drives (usb drives) that are 4 gigabytes - larger than any of the walmart drives you mentioned. Chris ************** Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)

I noticed here in Fort Stockton Wal Mart (not a super center), they have an eight gigabyte usb/thumbdrive/memorystick (various names). The problem here is the size because 8 gb is just not big enough to backup a complete hard disk and...... they are very slow. As Chris says, there is still a problem with the "register" files that we are forbidden to copy. The bottom line is, Microsoft wants us to buy a new hard disk (which is only good for 3 different computers which is questionable). That leaves us the only option of installing a new windows program before we can copy our backed up files to and hopefully....... they are compatible.   _________________________________________ Eddie Cope: Pecos County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txpecos2/ ________________________________ From: "Morton1000@aol.com" <Morton1000@aol.com> To: txgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:47:01 AM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] backup solutions MB stand for megabyte. If you look at your files in the folders, most of them will say something like 2KB - 2 kilobytes. A megabtye is 1000 kilobytes. A gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes, 1,000,000 kilogbytes. The external drives you mention at WalMart are not big enough to do much good. You can get thumb drives (usb drives) that are 4 gigabytes - larger than any of the walmart drives you mentioned. Chris ************** Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Actually, you can get USB Flash Drives up to 64GB now. They're in the $120 to $200 dollar range though. Larry > >-----Original Message----- > >From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > >[mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Morton1000@aol.com > >Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:47 AM > >To: txgen@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [TXGEN] backup solutions > > > >MB stand for megabyte. If you look at your files in the > >folders, most of them will say something like 2KB - 2 > >kilobytes. A megabtye is 1000 kilobytes. A gigabyte is > >1,000,000,000 bytes, 1,000,000 kilogbytes. > > > >The external drives you mention at WalMart are not big > >enough to do much good. You can get thumb drives (usb > >drives) that are 4 gigabytes - larger than any of the > >walmart drives you mentioned. > > > >Chris > > > > > >************** > >Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 > >or less. > >(http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001) > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Those droves are actually GB, not MB. Gina Heffernan Rusk Co, Texas ________________________________ From: "Morton1000@aol.com" <Morton1000@aol.com> To: txgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:47:01 AM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] backup solutions MB stand for megabyte. If you look at your files in the folders, most of them will say something like 2KB - 2 kilobytes. A megabtye is 1000 kilobytes. A gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes, 1,000,000 kilogbytes. The external drives you mention at WalMart are not big enough to do much good. You can get thumb drives (usb drives) that are 4 gigabytes - larger than any of the walmart drives you mentioned. Chris ************** Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message