Ful said:
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.
