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Is quite a headache. Being a computer user for so long, I've never done backup or file management myself ever, mainly because the files and programs I use are usually redundant and does not have any importance at all, such as games and miscellaneous schoolworks., and when I do not need them, the files will just be deleted without much second thought, but they never got deleted anyway because the harrdrive failed and did it for me (a few times).

Now, as file size of the programs I use grew substantially, and of course the collection of music, photos and videos are becoming larger, it's a pretty messy job to sort them out one by one, because I never had the habit of saving files I need in a systematic manner and for example unrar files wherever they are, now both the computers I'm using are in a state of chaos in terms of file management. Now only I realize, I'm paying the price of inefficiency for the collective laziness. The situation is much worse at my older Asus laptop, and now I'm painstakingly sorting files and deleting unnecessary ones. The process is slow, much due to the dilemma of 'to save or not to save'. Like some of the legacy exe files I used to use, I cannot decide whether to get rid of them or save them for archive. Very frustrating.

But to think of it, if you still insist on using your old computer but is lazy to deal with the mess, why not use the ultimate method of getting an image or snapshot of the harrdrive, by swapping the whole old harddrive and store them, and replacing them with a new harrdrive.