Transfering Files from old CPU to new CPU

[Guest 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?

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: Transfering Files from old CPU to new CPU

 

 

"Kris" <Kris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:CC70AC87-83D9-4E19-94E2-2C584B867AFC@microsoft.com...

> 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.

[Guest William R. Walsh]

Re: Transfering Files from old CPU to new CPU

 

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

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: Transfering Files from old CPU to new CPU

 

 

"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com>

wrote in message news:nqDak.180396$TT4.11771@attbi_s22...

> 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.

>

 

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

iffy anyway).