Copying old hard drive files.

[Guest Princess Leena]

I built a new computer, and I need to move all my old stuff onto my big new HD. (Thankfully, all my porn was on my XBox).

 

I'm having issues with this.

 

Please suggest a free way for me to accomplish this. E-Murder, or someone. Thanks.

[yankovic fan]

I used an external hard drive to put all my stuff from one computer onto the new one.

 

I was even able to preserve all my saved message histories from Yahoo messenger by doing this.

 

Hope that helps.

 

 

 

 

And this is free and slow and only going to work for smaller files, but email stuff to yourself a little at a time.

[CanadianChris]

Last time I bought a new computer, I used a serial cable to connect the old box to the new box. It was slow as hell, but it was cheap and it worked.

[Sideburnious]

^

Yeah, pretty much I used a network cable when i moved stuff over, or, more recently I use portable hard drives.

 

Either that or you can put your old hard drive into your new PC.

[Banter]

Either that or you can put your old hard drive into your new PC.

 

That's what I did. It was pretty fast and easy and more importantly: free.

[Guest Princess Leena]

That would be easy, but then I'd have a 300GB HD doing nothing, and my old virus-filled 80GB piece of crap still going.

 

I can put in the old HD, FTP all the stuff I want on my XBox, put new HD back in, FTP stuff back. It would take quite a while, but may be my best option.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

Do a clean boot on the 300gb with full OS/etc.

 

Then, put the 80 gig in the 300 gig's box and transfer all of the files you need from the 80 gig onto the 300 gig. You won't be executing any programs from the 80 gig, so the viruses won't matter.

[Guest Princess Leena]

That's basically what I tried doing first. Formatted the 300GB. Copied all of the 80GB one, and stuff just locked up. It probably would help if I had one of the recovery discs from at least one of the HD's.

 

Oh well, I'm resigned to doing the FTP thing. It actually won't be too bad.

 

Thanks for the help, everyone.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

Well, you can't copy programs... but everything else should work.

 

Also, the recovery discs won't matter at all.

[Guest The Beta Male]

if you want an exact copy of your drive, you could try a utility like Norton Ghost, but to be honest, on a fresh build, you`re better off just starting again.

 

data files (like pictures, mp3`s, projects you`ve been working on) will move across just fine. The easiest way to do this is to plug your old drive in as a "slave" on one of the IDE channels.

 

or if you have a router in your house, plug both pc`s into it (as long as you`re not using windows 95/98, finding the other machine in "my netwrok places" should be dead easy), from there, make sure the desired folders are shared and then just access your old machine from teh new one and copy across.

 

hope that`s of some use.