sti-04!!

Right chaps was wondering if you could help .........

Got myself a new computer on sunday thats wicked, the problem is i have loads of stuff stored on the old one that i need transferred onto this one.

I havent got a writer on the old one so cant put them on CD & doing it on floppy will take me months

anyone got any ideas

thanks in advance

stephen

Dracoro

Easier than that. Just put your old hard disk in your new pc. Make sure you set the jumpers of the old disk to be a slave and away you go. It should appear as another drive (e.g. F:\) and you can then just drag & drop. If it's of decent size, you may as well leave it in there unless you are doing something with the old PC.

Kev_turbo

How computer literate are you hardware wise?

When I did mine I took the harddrive out of the old PC and put it in the new one setting it as a slave. Load up from the new one as you would normally then just drag and drop the files you have from one to the other. This will not (usually) work with programs etc if that is what you need to transfer but office files, pictures, etc, etc will be no problems. Just make sure both PC's are virus free before hand otherwise they will spread from one to the other.

kev

Kev_turbo

bloody cross posting

sti-04!!

thanks lads, i will do this tomorrow

Going to give my daughter the old computer, so will transfer it back in

Thanks again

Dracoro

Just make sure you do it right and don't give yourself electric shocks! Plenty of illustrations on the web on how to do this sort of thing if you're worried.

sti-04!!

If i do i will pm you

i will turn it off first

do you have any links to these illustrations ??

Soulgirl

A good thing to have is a something like an EzDisk external HD harness... simply insert your HD and use it like you would an internal HD. Swap and change it around all you like .. this model supports up to 300 GB disks.... well sorted. We have 3 round the house, hidden between our pasta LOL

carl

If they've both got network cards in them, you can connect them up with a crossover Ethernet cable and just suck the data off one to the other. Use IPX/SPX networking and you don't even need to configure it!