Data File transfer to a new computer

[Guest]

I trying to find a SIMPLE way to transfer about 15 GB of digital photos to a new computer. The Files and Settings Wizard doesn't look like the solution. I've attempted to make a parallel cable transfer but got lost in the details. Does someone have a simple step by step instruction on using a crossover ethernet cable

The new computer is running XP Pro, the laptop is running 2000

 

[D.Currie]

I trying to find a SIMPLE way to transfer about 15 GB of digital photos to

a new computer. The Files and Settings Wizard doesn't look like the
solution. I've attempted to make a parallel cable transfer but got lost in
the details. Does someone have a simple step by step instruction on using a
crossover ethernet cable?

The new computer is running XP Pro, the laptop is running 2000.

Connect the two computers. Run the network wizard on XP. Make the setup disk
for the other computer, and run it. Then share the folder you want to copy.
That should be about it.

 

[Don Taylor]

Connect the two computers. Run the network wizard on XP. Make the setup disk
for the other computer, and run it. Then share the folder you want to copy.
That should be about it.

You might find the same problem trying to do this that I spent a
week trying to solve.

Amazingly enough, the network connected on the first try. Then I
opened up Windows Explorer and tried to drag-n-drop the folders
from one computer to the other. There were hundreds of megabytes
of data but it would "finish" in a fraction of a second. And every
time I looked carefully at what had been "transferred" to the new
machine I found all it had done was make a link to the data on the
old machine, not actually created a copy of the data.

Finally someone not on the net suggested that I try using the Network
Neighborhood window instead of Windows Explorer, click to select
the desired folder on the source machine and then use the Edit menu,
or the toolbar, and ask it to do a copy. That pops up a window
asking where the copy should be put and lets me climb up and down
the directory tree until I find the right destination. That really
actually did make a copy of the directory tree and not just a link,
so I could unhook the old machine and put it on the shelf as an
emergency backup.

Drag and Drop appears to do what it thinks is best and will behave
differently depending on what your source and destination are and
I have yet to find a book that includes a mention of what drag and
drop will really do across a network connection, or how to force
it to do what I wanted across a network. It seems to me that it
presumes the network connection will last forever and making a link
is the thing to do. The advice I have seen in books on how to force
drag and drop to do what I wanted did not appear to work. Your
mileage may vary, contents sold by weight, not by volume.

 

[D.Currie]

You might find the same problem trying to do this that I spent a
week trying to solve.

Amazingly enough, the network connected on the first try. Then I
opened up Windows Explorer and tried to drag-n-drop the folders
from one computer to the other. There were hundreds of megabytes
of data but it would "finish" in a fraction of a second. And every
time I looked carefully at what had been "transferred" to the new
machine I found all it had done was make a link to the data on the
old machine, not actually created a copy of the data.

Finally someone not on the net suggested that I try using the Network
Neighborhood window instead of Windows Explorer, click to select
the desired folder on the source machine and then use the Edit menu,
or the toolbar, and ask it to do a copy. That pops up a window
asking where the copy should be put and lets me climb up and down
the directory tree until I find the right destination. That really
actually did make a copy of the directory tree and not just a link,
so I could unhook the old machine and put it on the shelf as an
emergency backup.

Drag and Drop appears to do what it thinks is best and will behave
differently depending on what your source and destination are and
I have yet to find a book that includes a mention of what drag and
drop will really do across a network connection, or how to force
it to do what I wanted across a network. It seems to me that it
presumes the network connection will last forever and making a link
is the thing to do. The advice I have seen in books on how to force
drag and drop to do what I wanted did not appear to work. Your
mileage may vary, contents sold by weight, not by volume.

If you drag with the right mouse button, you'll get choices as to whether
you will copy, create a shortcut, etc.