our ignorance is showing

The computer turned itself off a lot today, so I'm trying to get files off the hard drive--I've emailed myself all the Erik and Laura-Marie Magazines and functionally ills, for example. More important, maybe, are all the photos I have on this hard drive that I really like having, but there are hundreds, maybe thousands (baby pictures of my nieces and nephew, other photos of family and friends). I couldn't even begin to email them all to myself. I wish there were a way to take this computer's hard drive and install it into my new computer as an extra hard drive. It's possible, but anyone I know who could do this lives far, far away.

I would get a flash drive and put all the photos on a flash drive, but this computer's USB ports are all broken, which is one of the many reasons I need a new computer. Ideally, this computer and the new computer could be networked, and I could transfer tons of files from the old to the new, but Erik and I don't know how to make that kind of network.