Before moving, there are few delicate items that we treasure the most. These delicate items have great importance in our daily lives. In order to ensure complete safety of such products, we cannot trust anyone else other than ourselves. No wonder how much you love the baby but you can never love like the mother. Now we will discuss about packing some delicate items that are really important.

Packing a computer:

It never happens so that someone wakes up one fine morning and starts preparing to move, just because he or she feels like moving. A move takes place after days of planning. The moment you decide to relocate, take a back up of the files in your computer. Do not keep the back up in one place only. Take many back ups and keep each copy of it in different places. If one back up is lost then the other will be there to suffice your need. You can consult your computer company. Usually computer companies advice to “park” (a process of pulling the hard drive data in a secure zone through a special program SHIP.EXE).

Apart from the computer disk drive, you have disks and diskettes, pack them in a box that will be layered as well as covered with clothes, keep them away from magnetic metals.

Unplug your computer from power source and disconnect all cords along with wires from the computer. Coil the cords properly with color coding, so that you do not mess up everything when reconnecting the cords and wires. All the associated accessories should be detached from the computer. Each one of them should be packed separately.

Do not start packing the computer instantly after usage and let it cool down. Unplug it from the power source and hold down the power button till you finish counting 30. this is a process of releasing flee power. There is a battery inside the computer which accumulates charge, by holding down the power button we release the stored charge, to avoid being electrocuted during unplugging.

Cover each component of the computer with cellophane paper or just with thin plastic, then insert each one of them in the computer box, which in turn should be protected with foam guards.

If you don’t have the original computer box then arrange for two boxes. One of these boxes should be bigger than the other or vice versa. Layer the bottom of the smaller box with Styrofoam. Insert the items and fill the excess gaps with Styrofoam again. Layer the big box with  Styrofoam, insert the smaller box in it and again fill the gaps with  Styrofoam.

If you have a printer, pack it along with the CPU after removing the cartridge. Label the box, so that the movers handle it carefully.