Transferring data from XP to Vista (Using Router)

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Hi,
I have an old PC that was installed with XP and a new PC for Vista...
I want to transfer all the stuff from the old PC to the new one,
If I just use cut-n-paste, some data would be missed out,
so I tried somethin' like this but unfortunately to no avail,
xcopy /c /e 192.168.1.200://C:\*.* .
where the address is for my old PC
and . is the current directory on my Vista PC..
Any hints
Thanks
 
Hi,
I have an old PC that was installed with XP and a new PC for Vista...
I want to transfer all the stuff from the old PC to the new one,
If I just use cut-n-paste, some data would be missed out,
so I tried somethin' like this but unfortunately to no avail,
xcopy /c /e 192.168.1.200://C:\*.* .
where the address is for my old PC
and . is the current directory on my Vista PC..
Any hints
Thanks
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To be honest, I wouln't suggest copying the whole disk over, but if
you do wish to do this, I can't see any reason why not to copy and
paste from the File Explorer GUI, if (for some reason) you do want to
take absolutly every file.

Top hint though, the user folders, i.e. the 'My Documents', 'My
Pictures' etc for each of your user accounts may be security protected
so you may find that once you copy them over to vista, you have to re-
take ownership of the folders and give yourself permissions to them,
it may be much simpler just to dive into these individually and pull
the data out.

Hope this helps,
John
 
John Braham said:
To be honest, I wouln't suggest copying the whole disk over, but if
you do wish to do this, I can't see any reason why not to copy and
paste from the File Explorer GUI, if (for some reason) you do want to
take absolutly every file.
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I see what you mean. I use xcopy because I wanna to take a "hard" copy from
my old PC.
I was having 10.7GB of data on this PC when copied over, there was only
around 1.7GB
So that I gave it a hard one.
Top hint though, the user folders, i.e. the 'My Documents', 'My
Pictures' etc for each of your user accounts may be security protected
so you may find that once you copy them over to vista, you have to re-
take ownership of the folders and give yourself permissions to them,
it may be much simpler just to dive into these individually and pull
the data out.
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Couldn't be done by admin. on both ends? I was using "administrator" as the
a/c name on both sides
I could let go the folders such as "Program files" and "Windows", I would
find it painful if I pick the files one by one out of my old PC!!! I simply
have piles of stuff to copy...
 
BTW, On the vista side, I open "computer", I see my hard drives and DVD-ROM
drive inside
Excuse me for my innocence on Vista. But I couldn't find the icon for my XP
PC from Vista.
Coudn't handle this.
Thanks
Jack
 
You'll have to look under Network for that one...
When I did my transfer, I copied the My Documents folder, My Favorites, and
any saved games I had under the Program Files, and made sure I had my old
email files, and called it good. You don't want to copy programs, because
they'll just be taking up space and not listed in the registry like if you
actually installed them, so they won't run. You'll have to reinstall
programs from scratch.
 
Hi,
I have an old PC that was installed with XP and a new PC for Vista...
I want to transfer all the stuff from the old PC to the new one,
If I just use cut-n-paste, some data would be missed out,
so I tried somethin' like this but unfortunately to no avail,
xcopy /c /e 192.168.1.200://C:\*.* .
where the address is for my old PC
and . is the current directory on my Vista PC..
Any hints
Thanks
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I am not a Windows expert but make sure you run syntax
on xcopy. There is no mention that it supports ip addresses,
it only knows about source/destination in reference to
disk volumes based on letters like C:/D:/etc either explicit
or implied. Even if it knew, you still have to go thru a common
routine to allow any network transfers using any command.

Better do it the common way - disable all firewalls on both machines
(but first remove the Internet cable from the router until you
transfer
all the files and restart the firewalls on both machins later, keep in
mind
that some PC's run more than one firewall so find them all).
Then allow the disk drive on your machine with XP to be shared with
read permissions (run Properties on the drive), after you transfer
the
files disable the sharing). Then you should see the shared drive on
your machine with Vista - look for it in the Network folder and not
the list of your local drives (you may wait a little or restart the
machine).
Then just run copy or copies from windows file explorer (command
window
is too clumsy).
 
Hi Jack ( sorry no pun intended lolol ) if you are having trouble copying
data from your old computer to the new one why don't you just burn it onto cd
or dvd. This would save you the hassles you are having.
 
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