Where should I move my 60 GB of desktop data folders to?

Personally I would move them to portable storage or a NAS and get them off of the computer before you lose them.

Keep personal data away from C: - create a new partition or put them on a different drive (internal or external) - and back them up.

Why? That way if you need to reinstall Windows, or restore a disk image of Windows (you do use disk imaging so you can recover from major problems without technical help and quite quickly by restoring a previously created disk image- e.g. using Macrium Reflect (free) don't you?) your data is unaffected.

Note: you can relocate your desktop to a different partition.

I pay $2 a month for 100GB Google My drive. I have loaded mountains of stuff up and only clocked 44GB to date

dalchina said:

Keep personal data away from C: - create a new partition or put them on a different drive (internal or external) - and back them up.

Why? That way if you need to reinstall Windows, or restore a disk image of Windows (you do use disk imaging so you can recover from major problems without technical help and quite quickly by restoring a previously created disk image- e.g. using Macrium Reflect (free) don't you?) your data is unaffected.

Note: you can relocate your desktop to a different partition.

Had a look at that, and to be honest wonders why someone offers a FREE version that saves all our data, and WHERE does it save it too??? Seems a bit iffy to me ..................................

elbmek said:

Had a look at that, and to be honest wonders why someone offers a FREE version that saves all our data, and WHERE does it save it too??? Seems a bit iffy to me ..................................

The Backup Image is a file.
You need to use a storage device to save the Backup Image (e.g. an external HDD).

You can transfer the Backup Image to the Cloud if you want.

As I said, I use google my drive - my daughter however has 3 or 4 external HDDs for her pics

elbmek said:

Had a look at that, and to be honest wonders why someone offers a FREE version that saves all our data, and WHERE does it save it too??? Seems a bit iffy to me ..................................

Simple - YOU buy a USB disk, and YOU tell Macrium to save images to the disk you've paid for.. or wherever you choose e.g. over a network.

Macrium has a commercial offering as well with some extra features, and you only get access to the forum if you have a paid-for license. Naturally in providing a very competent free program they hope you'll buy a license.

Aomei Backupper is similar- free/commercial. Nothing suspicious about that.

okay