FAST help

[ethical question r.e. working hours]

I did a backup with the FAST wizard and now want to restore the data to
a new computer. The 2 systems are connected with an ethernet cable and
on my old system I selected the folder with the *.dat files that are my
backup. When I started the transfer it started re-compressing the
files in my user account folders.

How do I transfer the files since they are already backed up and
restore them on the new computer?

Thanks!!

Eddie G

 

[glee]

This should explain it:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm

 

[ethical question r.e. working hours]

I didn't work. On my old computer I had one SATA drive and one IDE
drive. I took the SATA drive and used FAST to back up all of my data
FROM the sata drive to the IDE drive and it backed it up as a bunch of
*.dat files that all start with IMG. Now I have the SATA drive in my
new computer freshly formated with a fresh Windows install. What I
need to do is transfer those DAT files to my new computer and
uncompress them and have them go where they belong (i.e. emails,
pictures, movies).

Thanks!

Eddie G

 

[Eddie G]

Err...I now realize what I said and feel stupid as that is what FAST is
supposed to do. The challenge is I saved the DAT files to c:\temp on
my old computer and useing FAST to access the other computer I do not
have access to the whole system...only the shared folders.

Do I have to move the folder with the DAT files to a shared folder?

Thanks!

Eddie

 

[glee]

Why not just temporarily share the folder containing the FAST data files? Open
Windows Explorer on the old computer, right-click the folder (C:\Temp or whatever it
is), click "Sharing and Security" on the menu that appears, put a check in the box
for "Share this folder on the network" and click OK.

Read Gary Woodruff's article carefully.

 

[Eddie G]

I got it. I had to mark the folders as "shared" on the old system.

Thanks so much!!

Eddie

 

[glee]

You're welcome. I hope it all works well for you.