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Helllllllllp meeeeeeee....

I have to transfer all of my stuff from my old computer to my new one.

Poop. Why can't it just magically happen?

Someone have any info on the best way to do this? What about my old mail?

p.s. Happy Birthday to

zooooop!!!

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I wisht I did! I am a technological retard. O_o

Take your harddrive out and put it in the other one? Weh, I dunno.

I had to transfer files to a new hard drive, and there is a way to just copy the entire contents of your old drive onto the new, formatted one. But uh, I don't remember how. BIOS?

Yeah. I'm helpful.

THERE IS A WAY TO DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS

i had to do that recently....i realized that even i dont need a quarter gig of porn clips....not to mention the even more usefull things i have on there...

you can probably network them together with a serial cable, and then just pass the files that way. the hardest part is the actual networking. if they both have the same operating system, it probably won't be as bad. what are each of them running?
if they have different OSs, and you hate a computers, and you really hate windows, it's really gonna suck.

the only other ways to do it are:
tape backups (only if each PC has a tape drive, which isn't likely)
backup to a CD (only if the computer you're taking stuff from has a CDR)
backup to floppy (long, lots of floppies, big pain in the ass)

what kinds of things are you wanting to move? music, pics, documents, etc? or programs and crap?
email me if you want. prince_of_dysfunction@hotmail.com

Here's what I know and here's what sucks.

The old one doesn't have a CD-RW, but a Zip drive. Of course, the new one doesn't have a Zip drive, but a CD-RW. Another fun fact is that one is Win98, the other WinXP Home edition. (I know, I didn't necessarily want XP, but that's what it came with. I've been researching and it shouldn't be too bad I think.)

I DO however have, or rather the roommate bought one for us, a router. I'm assuming that I can hook up both of my computers to this router and move things from one to the other. This is the theory. That, or I've been told I have to get a cross-over cable and then move it from computer to computer. I have to figure this all out when I get home. Grrr. Do you know if it is fairly easy to transfer old mail? I access my mail through my browser (Nutscape).

Thank you for your help though. :)

Thank you all for your help actually. :)

a router for the internet, i'm assuming? i dunno much about them, honestly.
if you had a crossover cable, you wouldn't even need the router, really, as long as both PCs have network cards. you can connect them directly with the crossover thru the windows networking thing (like My Network Places, or whatever). any idea where you're going to get a crossover? *has an extra* :)

um, as far as the email stuff, if you go thru your browser, i'm assuming your email is web-based, and you really won't need to do anything to transfer it, because you'll be able to access it all when you get yout new one hooked up to the net. yes? or did i miss something?
if you use something like outlook or outlook express, it's really not hard, cuz it saves all your mail in a file on your harddrive.

also, in my mad fit of insomnia, i had wondered, what are you doing with the old one? keeping it, selling it, throwing it away? because, if you wanted, you could just put the old harddrive in the new tower (not taking the new one out), if you have room. that way, if you sell the PC, you could either buy a cheap harddrive, or sell it without one. (only problem i see with this is the different operating systems. i'd have to ask someone at work to know for sure how that would work/react.)
if, after you get all your stuff off of it, and you decide you want to sell it, let me know, and i can tell you how to completely erase everything on the drive, including the operating system. :) you'd probably have to put an OS on, but some buyers might be flexible and prefer it with nohting. dunno.

Thank yee :)

If you're computers have ethernet capabilities you can create a network with ethernet cables. I did that for my computers recently, plus I've got an ethernet hub which not only links them together, but uplinks them both to the DSL.

Gimme a call if you want.

Oh yeah, "hi"

-dookiehead

hocus pocus
movus stuffus

did it work? *looks hopeful*

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Helllllllllp meeeeeeee....

I dunno O_o

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big nrrd to the rescue! er, maybe ;)

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network

i agree