Customers of online storage service Xdrive have been warned to make sure they have retrieved all of their data by 12 January as it will shut down on that date.

The company has recommended that customers transfer their data to alternative services such as Carbonite, Windows Live SkyDrive or Mozy.

"We've created a new tool on Xdrive to save the entire contents of your archive into a single Zip file," a message on the site reads.

"You can download this file and either save it to your hard drive, upload it to another storage service, or store it elsewhere," the message continues.

Xdrive offered 5GB of online storage for free and larger amounts for a fee, though the company stopped charging customers on 5 November 2008.

The service was a Silver Award Winner when Web User reviewed it in Issue 185, published in April 2008.

Xdrive is a subsidiary of AOL and is based in Beverly Hills, California.

www.xdrive.com/closingfaqs

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