file transfer wizard

[kev]

Hello all! I was wondering if it's possible to transfer files from one drive
to another in the same system using the File and Settings Transfer wizard as
if they were in two seperate systems?

I had an old system running Win 98 and it finally died so I bought a new
drive and Win XP and installed it on a totally different board with the old
and new drives on the new board. Since using the old system is no longer an
option I was wondering if it's possible to use the wizard or am I going to
have to "cherrypick" all of the stuff from one drive to another?

Thanks in advance
Kevin

 

[philo]

Hello all! I was wondering if it's possible to transfer files from one drive
to another in the same system using the File and Settings Transfer wizard as
if they were in two seperate systems?

I had an old system running Win 98 and it finally died so I bought a new
drive and Win XP and installed it on a totally different board with the old
and new drives on the new board. Since using the old system is no longer an
option I was wondering if it's possible to use the wizard or am I going to
have to "cherrypick" all of the stuff from one drive to another?

Thanks in advance
Kevin

You need to copy over any data you wish to save...
that's all there is to it

 

[sgopus]

You are talking two different operating systems, no way F&T can manage that.
besides it only operates under the asumption that the same user is
transferring files, not a totally different operating system and user.
You will have to pick and choose.

 

[kev]

I tried using the wizard and when I would direct it to look at drive D ( the
old drive ) it was noting that it was compressing files on drive C. I tried
the "create wizard disk on drive A" to see if that helped but it didn't seem
to do anything different.

 

[kev]

I wasn't trying to transfer the Operating sys, just files like pictures and
links in my favorites folder only. The problem is I have a lot of them so a
one-by-one transfer is going to be tedious since some of them are spread out.
The F&T wizard claimed it could handle transfering files from drives w/ win
95 on up except server versions. I just don't know why it keeps trying to
compress drive C which is my new drive. I need it to compress drive D which
is the old drive.

 

[sgopus]

I understood your question perfectly, my answer stands.
compressing the drive is a bad idea, it slows the system response as it has
to decompress the data first in order to use it.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I understood your question perfectly, my answer stands.
compressing the drive is a bad idea, it slows the system response as it has
to decompress the data first in order to use it.

I agree that drive compression is a very bad idea, but not for that
reason.

True, a file on a compressed drive has to be compressed every time
it's written and uncompressed every time it's read. That takes extra
time. On the other hand, the file is smaller and takes less time to
read and read and write. That *saves* time.

Which of those factors is more significant depends on the relative
speeds of the processor (which does the compression and uncompression)
and the hard drive (which does the reading and writing), but on a
modern system, it's probably a near wash, and little, if any speed
difference is normally noticeable.

To me, the real problem with drive compression is that it puts all
your eggs in one basket. On an uncompressed drive, a read problem with
a single file affects that file only. On a compressed drive, it
usually affects everything on the entire drive.

 

[philo]

I tried using the wizard and when I would direct it to look at drive D ( the
old drive ) it was noting that it was compressing files on drive C. I tried
the "create wizard disk on drive A" to see if that helped but it didn't seem
to do anything different.

<snip>

I would not bother with the wizard...
just copy over the data you need to keep.

 

[kev]

Thanks to all who posted to this thread. I will try to do it manually as
philo suggested since that seems to be the way out. I was not trying to
specifically compress the drive. I believe that is a bad idea. I just didn't
understand why it kept looking at the new drive when I needed to remove files
from the old drive. Seems like the F&T wizard is only designed to handle the
transfer with the old system still running, not with the old and new drives
in the same machine.

Thanks again
Kevin

 

[philo]

Thanks to all who posted to this thread. I will try to do it manually as
philo suggested since that seems to be the way out. I was not trying to
specifically compress the drive. I believe that is a bad idea. I just didn't
understand why it kept looking at the new drive when I needed to remove files
from the old drive. Seems like the F&T wizard is only designed to handle the
transfer with the old system still running, not with the old and new drives
in the same machine.

Thanks again
Kevin

Doing it manually should not be too big of a deal...
good luck to you