Guest Cox941 Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP Home. If I buy a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer data from one to another?
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 Re: XP Home to XP Pro Cox941 wrote: > I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP > Home. If I buy a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer > data from one to another? Professional is Home Edition with additional security and networking features. Even if you were crazy enough to go Vista for a more drastic change - everything you created would likely work. You will - of course - need to install the applications on the new laptop. Using the Files And Setttings Transfer Wizard - you can get your files/etc over. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Guest philo Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 Re: XP Home to XP Pro "Cox941" <Cox941@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AE920A5A-8410-4297-B208-CB969858DE6F@microsoft.com... > I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP Home. If I buy > a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer data from one to another? Sure just burn all your data to DVD's (or CD's) then pop the media into your new machine and copy your data over... you'll need to reinstall your apps of course
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 Re: XP Home to XP Pro On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:50:06 -0700, Cox941 <Cox941@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP Home. If I buy > a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer data from one to another? Of course. Laptop or not, you can always transfer data from one computer to another. Here are some of the ways to do it, in no particular order: 1. Diskettes 2. CDRs 3. E-mail from the old and read on the new 4. Network the two together 5. Thumb drive 6. Remove the old hard drive, mount it in a USB enclosure and read and copy it on the new computer. Which of these ways is best depends partly on how many files you have and how big they are. But once you've transferred the data, you have to be able to read it on the new computer. That requires that you have appropriate software installed on the new one. Do not make the mistake of thinking, as many people do, that just because your old computer came with Microsoft Word, for example, that the new one necessarily will too. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Charles W Davis Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 Re: XP Home to XP Pro I suggest Windows Vista. Why buy a 6-year old system? Most computer manufacturers today don't offer Windows XP. "Cox941" <Cox941@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AE920A5A-8410-4297-B208-CB969858DE6F@microsoft.com... >I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP Home. If I >buy > a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer data from one to > another?
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted August 16, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 Re: XP Home to XP Pro "Charles W Davis" <Anthemwebs@lvcoxmail.com> wrote in message news:ei07Ja53HHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >I suggest Windows Vista. Why buy a 6-year old system? Most computer >manufacturers today don't offer Windows XP. Actually, many manufacturers do, because many companies simply aren't anywhere near ready to shift to Vista, and there's lots of legacy software that either won't run properly on it or hasn't been tested thoroughly and approved. As an example, quite near me there's a hospital with 10,000 employees. Many of the desktop systems still use Windows 2000. New systems *mght* get XP. Vista won't be used there for years. Any vendor that wants to actually sell their hardware is still offering XP as an option. In some cases, it's still the default OS. HTH -pk > "Cox941" <Cox941@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:AE920A5A-8410-4297-B208-CB969858DE6F@microsoft.com... >>I need a new laptop. All of my OS (office, Home, Laptop) is XP Home. If I >>buy >> a new laptop with XP Pro, Will I be able to transfer data from one to >> another? >
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