Transfer Data from Old Computer to New One

[ofield]

Hi,
I'm getting a new computer and was wondering if there was a easy way to transfer all the programs and files from my old computer to my new one.

Thanks for any help. Happy Holidays,

[DJ Bobo]

The probably easiest way would be to mount your old hard drive in the new computer.
Most new computers still have at least one IDE interface, so it shouldn't be a problem.

[Doom9]

Why not simple use what's already there on both boxes anyway: the Network card. Start both PCs, then access the old from the new by accessing

\\192.168.1.5\c$

(assuming the IP address of your old box is 192.168.1.5).. you'll then have to enter the login and password of the old box (that only works if you have an account with a password.. if you don't, add a password to that account). If you need drive d instead, it's

\\192.168.1.5\d$

[Inventive Software]

Or do what's easiest and get a bloody caddy! :D

[Blue_MiSfit]

It all depends. If you've got lots of stuff to transfer, networking is usually disgustingly slow. Expect no more than 7 - 8 mb/s over 100mbit ethernet, and about half that over 802.11g.

If I need to move a lot of data in a reasonable amount of time, I have an external USB / Firewire / eSATA interface for both 3.5" and 2.5" form factors. It makes life much easier, and can make the physical drive the bottleneck, as opposed to the interface.

All depends though... It's very easy to just map the drive and do it all over the network. The C$ share is a good trick that lots of ppl dont know about.

~MiSfit

[radar]

Why not simple use what's already there on both boxes anyway: the Network card. Start both PCs, then access the old from the new by accessing

\\192.168.1.5\c$

(assuming the IP address of your old box is 192.168.1.5).. you'll then have to enter the login and password of the old box (that only works if you have an account with a password.. if you don't, add a password to that account). If you need drive d instead, it's

\\192.168.1.5\d$

hi
im trying to access my old comp from my new one.ive set up a network,but cant figure how to get access to my old comp.any help would be great,thanks

[Shinigami-Sama]

I"d just pull the old drive out and copy the files myself

then again I like playing with hardware

[Blue_MiSfit]

hi
im trying to access my old comp from my new one.ive set up a network,but cant figure how to get access to my old comp.any help would be great,thanks

Simple.

Connect both computers to the network. Make sure its working by opening a web page. I'm assuming you're running XP.

Do an ipconfig to get the IP address of your old computer.

Then, (on the new PC) right click on my computer, and go to "map network drive".

in the "folder" field put this (With your old PCs IP instead of the example shown here)

\\192.168.0.3\C$


It may ask you to authenticate with the administrator account. By default, it's administrator - with no password.

Then the old computer will show up as a network drive under my computer, and it can be accessed like any other hard drive. Copy away!

~MiSfit

[radar]

hi Blue_MiSfit

im not sure on how to get my ip address.ive tried "ipconfig"in the run box,on the start menue.i get no ip address??

[jeffy]

hi Blue_MiSfit

im not sure on how to get my ip address.ive tried "ipconfig"in the run box,on the start menue.i get no ip address??
Start - Run - cmd
then write ipconfig

[Blue_MiSfit]

:) welcome to the command line. No, it's not DOS :)

Windows still has it, and it's terribly useful!!!

~Misfit

[ilovejedd]

Just had to transfer 80 GB of data to a new hard drive (for laptop). I must say having an IDE/SATA to USB adapter is heck convenient. Sure beats using a 10/100 network.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Word. It's shocking how much difference it makes!

An often overlooked trick is networking via IEEE 1394. Assuming both computers have it, this interface is very quick. It's easy to set up (especially on a mac OMG...) and is a nice solution when moving a lot of data, but removing the drive is too much to ask... for the lazy like me :)

~misfit

[Shinigami-Sama]

Word. It's shocking how much difference it makes!

An often overlooked trick is networking via IEEE 1394. Assuming both computers have it, this interface is very quick. It's easy to set up (especially on a mac OMG...) and is a nice solution when moving a lot of data, but removing the drive is too much to ask... for the lazy like me :)

~misfit

I had forgotten you can do that
thats an epic idea!

[Sharktooth]

It all depends. If you've got lots of stuff to transfer, networking is usually disgustingly slow. Expect no more than 7 - 8 mb/s over 100mbit ethernet
Poor cables? poor network card?
I usually have 90-95% efficiency over my 100mbits network (make sure you disable the QoS in WinXP! it's completely useless...).

[ilovejedd]

Poor cables? poor network card?
I usually have 90-95% efficiency over my 100mbits network (make sure you disable the QoS in WinXP! it's completely useless...).

Maybe he meant 7-8 MBytes/s and not mbit/s? I get around 24mbit/s throughput with wifi and 100mbit ethernet is definitely faster than that. It's also faster than USB 1.1 (I've got old PCs) so when I have to copy files to one of the ancient PCs, I just do it over the network when I'm feeling too lazy to connect the hard drive internally.

[Blue_MiSfit]

yeah that's what I meant :) Unless you work at ___ ____ (my employer) who has 10 megabit half duplex ethernet throughout the ENTIRE facility (which is brand new and just opened this year)

You tell me.... :rolleyes:

~MiSfit

[squid_80]

10baseT or (gasp) 10base2? Collisions ahoy! Not to mention the fun you can have with a packet sniffer.

[Blue_MiSfit]

10baseT :)

It's all Cat5e cabling with new cisco switches that have a fiber uplink and dual redundant 4gbit OC internet links... but we've got something like 6000 workstations for the facility, so you know how THAT game plays out.. It's frustrating to watch an OS image come down from a LOCAL file server at 900 k/s :)

~MiSfit

[Shinigami-Sama]

10baseT :)

It's all Cat5e cabling with new cisco switches that have a fiber uplink and dual redundant 4gbit OC internet links... but we've got something like 6000 workstations for the facility, so you know how THAT game plays out.. It's frustrating to watch an OS image come down from a LOCAL file server at 900 k/s :)

~MiSfit

...
find both the accountants and the IT manager and drag them out back and put a box of cable each up their ____ ( you know what I'm thinking )

thats just sad

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yep.

It's a national standard. Love it.

~Misfit