A disk enclosure is essentially a specialized chassis designed to hold and power disk drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures provide power to the drives therein and convert the data sent across their native data bus into a format usable by an external connection on the computers to which it is connected. In some cases, the conversion is as trivial as carrying a signal between different connector types. In others, it is so complicated as to require a separate embedded system to retransmit data over connector and signal of a different standard. Factoryassembled external hard disk drives, external DVDROM drives, and others are all built around disk enclosures. Bulkier models built around . and .

hard drives and fullheight . DVDROM drives use enclosures that are often nearly identical to OEM enclosures.

You could burn a CD from computer A and load that CD on computer B. This assumes that your data will fit on one CD, and that computer A has a CD burner. But if CD burning isnt an option, read on. 100 will get you a 1GB USB flash drive. PC 2, and copy your files to PC 2.

If youre transferring lots of data, you may need to get an external USB hard drive instead. Read on for more information about USB flash drives, external hard drives and other backup devices. Get file transfer software like IntelliMover. It allows you to physically connect two PCs using a supplied cable, and most of the transition work is done for you. Also, you can easily bring your HD to another computer, at work for instance. The downside is transfer rates. MP3s, but it will be a little slow when transfering large amounts of data back and forth. Looks like you have a notebook. This is rather more complex, you have to buy a HD with more capacity than your existing HD, transfer your contents over using another computer, then install the new HD. Networking setup takes more time than setting up the USB. The cheaper NAS devices I have seen, from Netgear for instance, have poorer user reviews than the simpler USB drives.

Get a USB attached external hdd. Make sure your iTunes can find them all. Tunes, music was all over the place and this is much easier if you consolidate in the format that iTunes likes. If you move a file, iTunes wont automatically find it, you have to tell itunes how to find it. Once you have that all straightened out. It will take a long time to copy them all. Once youve done that delete everything in your iTunes library. USB iTunes folder and import the whole thing.

Once you verify that everything works OK you can go back with windows explorer and delete your local music files. Tunes music folder location to your USB drive. Anything you purchase after that will be put on the USB drive. USB drives are highly susceptible to shock. Be careful with the sync program. USB Hard drive as well. The program will not delete anything from your laptop. You must do that manually.

IF your going the way of transferring files, then deleting them off the laptop computer, you need to be very careful with the sync program. Sync works great if you want exact duplicate folders. In your case, it sounds like you want everything on the USB drive, so syncing may not be the best option. Just a manual copy and paste, then a manual delete of the laptop data.

Thats what you need to do.