Good morning,

I just bought a new notebook and would transfer data from my old one.

Both notebook run XP Home Edition - actually the new with Media Center,
but if I am not wrong XP is the same.

On my old PC I have about 20Gb data that I would transfer on the new
one.
I do not have any backup hw device.

Both have a wireless card to connect to internet through a wireless
router.

My question is: is there a way to have new PC "see" the old one hard
disk and directly copy files? Or any other simple way to backup/restore
data?

Thank you for any suggestion.

Kind regards,
Ful

Hi,

you can,

1. Connect both laptop/pc by Cross patch cable(available in market at
low cost) and assign both computers same series ip and get them
connected by simply sharing the data folders.

2.You can connect both laptop by Wireless / bluetooth connection if
they have on laptop.

sam



Ful wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I just bought a new notebook and would transfer data from my old one.
>
> Both notebook run XP Home Edition - actually the new with Media Center,
> but if I am not wrong XP is the same.
>
> On my old PC I have about 20Gb data that I would transfer on the new
> one.
> I do not have any backup hw device.
>
> Both have a wireless card to connect to internet through a wireless
> router.
>
> My question is: is there a way to have new PC "see" the old one hard
> disk and directly copy files? Or any other simple way to backup/restore
> data?
>
> Thank you for any suggestion.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ful

Hi,

> 1. Connect both laptop/pc by Cross patch cable(available in market at
> low cost) and assign both computers same series ip and get them
> connected by simply sharing the data folders.

I do not know what this cable is. On which port should it be connected?
I do not know how to assign ip series. Would you please help me?
Is any additional software required or is it sufficient to share
folders?

>
> 2.You can connect both laptop by Wireless / bluetooth connection if
> they have on laptop.
>
> sam
>

Both laptops have both Wireless and Bluetooth connection. So this
sounds to me best solution. Supposing I proceed this way, what is it
necessary to do? Again assingning same ip and sharing folders?

Thank you.
Ful

Ful,

That is CAT 5 Cable with Cross patch Cable. IT is normal LAN cable
which Connect to your Ethernet port. No additional software is
required. but lets try 2nd option.

Go to
control panel> click on Wireless network setup wizard

Go through the wizard.

sam


Ful wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > 1. Connect both laptop/pc by Cross patch cable(available in market at
> > low cost) and assign both computers same series ip and get them
> > connected by simply sharing the data folders.
>
> I do not know what this cable is. On which port should it be connected?
> I do not know how to assign ip series. Would you please help me?
> Is any additional software required or is it sufficient to share
> folders?
>
> >
> > 2.You can connect both laptop by Wireless / bluetooth connection if
> > they have on laptop.
> >
> > sam
> >
>
> Both laptops have both Wireless and Bluetooth connection. So this
> sounds to me best solution. Supposing I proceed this way, what is it
> necessary to do? Again assingning same ip and sharing folders?
>
> Thank you.
> Ful

Media Center is Pro and not Home.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Ful" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
: Good morning,
:
: I just bought a new notebook and would transfer data from my old one.
:
: Both notebook run XP Home Edition - actually the new with Media Center,
: but if I am not wrong XP is the same.
:
: On my old PC I have about 20Gb data that I would transfer on the new
: one.
: I do not have any backup hw device.
:
: Both have a wireless card to connect to internet through a wireless
: router.
:
: My question is: is there a way to have new PC "see" the old one hard
: disk and directly copy files? Or any other simple way to backup/restore
: data?
:
: Thank you for any suggestion.
:
: Kind regards,
: Ful
:

>
> Go to
> control panel> click on Wireless network setup wizard
>
> Go through the wizard.
>

Thank you this evening I will try this.

As to OS I have not unpacked it yet ... and thought it was XP home +
Media Center, but if Media Center is Pro .....

Does it make difference if it is Pro?

Thanks.
Ciao
Ful

You said "Both have a wireless card to connect to internet through a wireless
router"

Why don't you set up a little home network sharing files between these two
computers?? Once it's set up, you just copy files form one directory to
another.

You wouldn't need to get patch cables as they're both connected thru the
router and easily networked. In fact, you'll have to run the connection
wizard anyway to connect via patch cables, so connect as a regular home
network instead.




"Ful" wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I just bought a new notebook and would transfer data from my old one.
>
> Both notebook run XP Home Edition - actually the new with Media Center,
> but if I am not wrong XP is the same.
>
> On my old PC I have about 20Gb data that I would transfer on the new
> one.
> I do not have any backup hw device.
>
> Both have a wireless card to connect to internet through a wireless
> router.
>
> My question is: is there a way to have new PC "see" the old one hard
> disk and directly copy files? Or any other simple way to backup/restore
> data?
>
> Thank you for any suggestion.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ful
>
>

>
> Why don't you set up a little home network sharing files between these two
> computers?? Once it's set up, you just copy files form one directory to
> another.
>
> You wouldn't need to get patch cables as they're both connected thru the
> router and easily networked. In fact, you'll have to run the connection
> wizard anyway to connect via patch cables, so connect as a regular home
> network instead.
>

Hi,

this sounds great, but I do not know how set up the little home network
to share files.
If it is not too difficult I would appreciate some instructions.

Regards,
Fulvia

Ful:

I was going to give you another suggestion before, but I wasn't sure how
network handy you are.

I was in IT, and in computer consulting for a number of years, and use a
piece of software called "Fastlynx" which you can find at

www.sewelldirect.com

that sells you the software with the cross over cables, that comes in
serial, parallel, and USB forms, that I know of and own. Ethernet versions I
haven't checked. Once you hook the cables up, install the software on both
PC's, fire it up, both PC's see one another, one call the master, and the
other the slave. The big advantage here it's pretty idiot proof, and you can
interhange data between all different versions of Windows, DOS, and Linux.

As to networking you computers, if both are already hooked up to the
routers, then you'll need to:

- Have TCP/IP turned on
- configure the folders to share
- configure firewalls (turn off to check)

There's numerous posts all day long on this site pointing you to URL's on
how to network, so I don't want to start a long post here on that subject. If
youhave the time, you'll benefit in the long run setting it up.

Took me over a week to figure out my first newtork.

I also seen suggestions here of taking the old drive out of one, and hooking
it up to the second as a slave. Have seen it oftern happen where it doesn't
work, and when you put the HD back into the original PC, it doesn't work
either.

With Fastlynx, I don't have to worry about messing with drives, opening up
an old machine, different operating systems, configuring networks, if all I
want to do is transfer a few dumb files.





"Ful" wrote:

> >
> > Why don't you set up a little home network sharing files between these two
> > computers?? Once it's set up, you just copy files form one directory to
> > another.
> >
> > You wouldn't need to get patch cables as they're both connected thru the
> > router and easily networked. In fact, you'll have to run the connection
> > wizard anyway to connect via patch cables, so connect as a regular home
> > network instead.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> this sounds great, but I do not know how set up the little home network
> to share files.
> If it is not too difficult I would appreciate some instructions.
>
> Regards,
> Fulvia
>
>

"Ful" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Good morning,
>
> I just bought a new notebook and would transfer data from my old one.
>
> Both notebook run XP Home Edition - actually the new with Media Center,
> but if I am not wrong XP is the same.
>
> On my old PC I have about 20Gb data that I would transfer on the new
> one.
> I do not have any backup hw device.
>
> Both have a wireless card to connect to internet through a wireless
> router.
>
> My question is: is there a way to have new PC "see" the old one hard
> disk and directly copy files? Or any other simple way to backup/restore
> data?
>
> Thank you for any suggestion.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ful


Ful:
While you've gotten some good responses from responders to your query,
including the ones from Frank Chin, re establishing a network connection
between your two laptops and using that process for transferring (copying)
data from your old laptop/notebook to your new one...

I wonder if you might consider another approach - simple in design to do
what you presently want to do and yielding an additional benefit of
establishing the foundation for creating & maintaining an ongoing
comprehensive backup system for your new notebook.

Simply purchase a USB external hard drive. They're relatively inexpensive
these days and universally available from the usual Office and computer
supply stores. Then too, they're available from virtually every computer
online vendor.

Connect that USB device to your old notebook through the supplied USB cable
(the device generally contains its own power supply) and following the boot,
just copy whatever folders & files you want to the USB external HDD just
like you would copy any files to a floppy disk for example.

When you're finished just connect the USB device to your new notebook and
copy those files to your new HDD.

The added advantage (that I referred to above) to all this is that you can
now use that USB external HDD as a day-to-day backup device for your new
notebook. In doing so, you might also want to consider using a disk imaging
program such as the Acronis True Image program to create & maintain a
comprehensive backup system which will backup your entire system including
the operating system, all your programs & applications, your created data -
in short, everything that's on your notebook's internal HDD. This type of
program is relatively easy to use and quite effective.

Anyway, without trying to complicate your life, I thought I would mention
another approach for you to consider.
Anna

P.S.
One thing more I might mention. When you mention that there's 20 GB of data
that you want to transfer (copy) from your old machine to the new one, we're
assuming that represents user-created data, i.e., your documents, photos,
music files, etc. That is to say they're not programs/applications. Because
the latter must be reinstalled in your new machine from the installation
media. In virtually every case you can't merely copy or move programs from
one machine to another. I trust you understand that but I thought I might
mention it.