Transfering Files from old CPU to new CPU

[Kris]

HELP!!!
Can I transfer files from my old CPU by just turning ON this old unit, not
plugged to a screen, to my new desktop PC by using a USB cable (USB conexions
on both ends), and the File Transfer Wizard of my new PC?

 

[M.I.5¾]

HELP!!!
Can I transfer files from my old CPU by just turning ON this old unit, not
plugged to a screen, to my new desktop PC by using a USB cable (USB
conexions
on both ends), and the File Transfer Wizard of my new PC?

No. At least not out of the box.

You will probably have to connect a screen to it, just so that you set
things up to support the ways it can be done.

There are alternatives. You can transfer files in this way if both machines
have firewire ports. Windows natively treats firewire as a standard network
connection if 2 machines are connected this way. This is supported out of
the box so no additional software is required.

You can transfer files in this way if both machines have ethernet ports. If
one doesn't, ethernet cards can be had for next to nothing.

Atlernatively, you can get USB gizmos that will connect two USB ports
together. Software has to be loaded onto both machines and this usually
provides a transfer wizard as well.

If you really don't want to connect a screen, then you can remoove the hard
drive from the old machine and connect it to the new via a USB drive box or
USB/ATA interfac lead.

 

[William R. Walsh]

Hi!

Windows natively treats firewire as a standard network connection if 2
machines are connected this way.

While this is convenient, it is not true for any release of Windows other
than XP or Vista. (I doubt that Me supported it...and even if it did, it
probably wouldn't work right.) As long as both machines are XP machines,
this will work fine and is probably the fastest of any option besides
gigabit Ethernet.

Atlernatively, you can get USB gizmos that will connect two USB
ports together. Software has to be loaded onto both machines and
this usually provides a transfer wizard as well.

Detto IntelliMover is one such example.

If you really don't want to connect a screen, then you can remoove the
hard drive from the old machine and connect it to the new via a USB drive
box or USB/ATA interfac lead.

This brings up something that really surprised me about the Windows
migration wizard. It can't import data straight from hard drives, at least
not in any way that I could find. This isn't much help if you have a dead
computer with a good hard drive and all your files. Then you have to do it
manually, or find some software to do the job.

William

 

[M.I.5¾]

Hi!


While this is convenient, it is not true for any release of Windows other
than XP or Vista. (I doubt that Me supported it...and even if it did, it
probably wouldn't work right.) As long as both machines are XP machines,
this will work fine and is probably the fastest of any option besides
gigabit Ethernet.

Both ME and 98SE support it. 98FE did not (In fact firewire on 98FE was
iffy anyway).