Alrighty, then.

So my new laptop's on its way. It's Vista and'll be upgraded to Windows 7 as soon as that's available. So...my new question is:

What's the best way to move my shit from this (XP) laptop to that laptop? I have a 250 GB backup hard drive. Excuse my ignorance: Can I just transfer everything via that? It couldn't be that easy. Could it?

Ace said:

I have no idea, but hello!

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

Hey, you!

I just had to reinstall the operating system on my laptop (which, btw didn't go so well, so I'ma hafta do it again ), so I had to make sure all my files were backed up. I'm thinking for basic files/programs (Word, excel, music files) you should just be able to save to your external hd, then copy to your new computer. Special programs may have to be installed again on the new laptop; you'll have to have the installation disk or download from the internet (ie. If you have a printer you'll probably have to reinstall that software, you might have to download adobe acrobat reader from the internet).

Disclaimer: I am not an IT person so I could be completely wrong.

Disclaimer 2: I do not have an iPod or use iTunes, so I don't know how to transfer iTunes files safely.


Good luck.

I used to have this cord that my brother got me from Best Buy that would connect two computers together so that you could just directly transfer stuff from one comp to another

Can't recall what it was called though, but it was pretty useful for me...until I lent it to a friend and never got it back

thekidsgirl said:

Sounds like you're talking about a "Windows Easy Transfer" doohickey. What I'm wonderin' is Do I need somethin' like dat? Or will my backup hard drive suffice?

Ace said:

Oh! I don't see why it wouldn't. I have a portable harddrive that works fine for transferring data

Maybe this?? http://www.bestbuy.ca/ See memory stick

luv4u said:

A blank Best Buy search form?

Ace said:

See my post above

luv4u said:

Thanks! But wouldn't that just be the same as transferring stuff from my backup HD?

http://clickfree.com/


omg...these are great. dvd's that find your files, saves them and then u just put them in your new pc. i transferred 6,000 songs and 1,000 pics in 30 mins. that transfer cable for vista is useless--

yeh duh just plug in the HD
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thekidsgirl said:

a network cable? we tried that between our 2 laptops, one on Vista one on XP, and getting them to see each other was a pain in the ass ended up just copying files to external HD

Fury said:

I have a clickfree portable.

Fury said:

Thanks, Fury! But I guess my clickfree portable's gonna cover me.

Ace said:

did u see my little pile of shit next to that useless ass cable? worthless

Fury said:

Whoops! Missed that.

Free software for cloning Windows OS HDs to an external HD: http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

Free software for cloning Mac OS HDs to an external HD: http://www.bombich.com/so...e/ccc.html

These copy everything (even desktop items) to any kind of drive - which in turn, can be used as your boot drive. Wouldn't be without them.

And if you have an old 2.5" or 3.5" IDE or SATA drive sitting around, you can use one of these to do the transferring without a case: http://store.worldstart.c...uctid=5243 (great for testing drives as well)

just copped an external terabyte drive to back up my computer before i send it in to replace the dead cd drive.

squirrelgrease said:

nice find thanks

I just got a new desktop Friday and transferred all the files
i needed with a memory stick.

phunkdaddy said:

i also considered this.

What's about iTunes shit? I'm assuming you have to fiddle with somethin' to authorize them to be transferred to another compooter?

Ace said:

Ya mights gotta burn thems to CD to get rid of the DRM first.

alright, let's start at the beginning.


First, is your computer plugged in and turned on?

It's not 'my shit' it's 'my belongings'.

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