Moving data to a new system
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Hi all I am off for the summer and built a new P4 system, I have about 45 programs and about 55 Gigs of data to move with XP pro SP2 installed on both I tried transfer wizard, no luck, used a network to copy (a 100Mbps connection) slow, slow Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks Paul
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Hi all I am off for the summer and built a new P4 system, I have about 45 programs and about 55 Gigs of data to move with XP pro SP2 installed on both I tried transfer wizard, no luck, used a network to copy (a 100Mbps connection) slow, slow Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks Paul
You take the hard drive out of machine a, put it into machine b, and then copy/paste. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Hi all I am off for the summer and built a new P4 system, I have about 45 programs and about 55 Gigs of data to move with XP pro SP2 installed on both I tried transfer wizard, no luck, used a network to copy (a 100Mbps connection) slow, slow Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks Paul
well, a portable harddrive backup up, compressed and decompressed through a USB 2.0 (or better yet, firewire 800) pipe can take an hour plus, but get the job done (slower if you don't compress before sending it to the drive). Other than that, use the network copy while you are sleeping. :) or pop the drive out of your old computer, add it as a data drive to the new one, copy and return. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Hi all I am off for the summer and built a new P4 system, I have about 45 programs and about 55 Gigs of data to move with XP pro SP2 installed on both I tried transfer wizard, no luck, used a network to copy (a 100Mbps connection) slow, slow Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks Paul
I've tried scores of different ways to do this, and by far the fastest and least error-prone is to just physically move the old drive into the new PC and use a program that won't skip files to copy everything from the old drive to the new. This is quite a bit more difficult now that NTFS has largely replaced FAT32... but programs like PartitionMagic can be useful. Otherwise, try an XP boot disc and XCOPY.
You must be careful in the forest Broken glass and rusty nails If you're to bring back something for us I have bullets for sale...
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Hi all I am off for the summer and built a new P4 system, I have about 45 programs and about 55 Gigs of data to move with XP pro SP2 installed on both I tried transfer wizard, no luck, used a network to copy (a 100Mbps connection) slow, slow Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks Paul
Half the fun of getting a new machine is installing everything from scratch again. It's like a spring clean, you get to wash out all those little bits of dirt that built up over the years. And if you're really lucky someone else pays you to do it too.
Ðavid Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Audioscrobbler :: flickrDie Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen
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Hi all I am off for the summer and built a new P4 system, I have about 45 programs and about 55 Gigs of data to move with XP pro SP2 installed on both I tried transfer wizard, no luck, used a network to copy (a 100Mbps connection) slow, slow Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks Paul
Thanks you all for the fast replies I thought about taking out the old drive and changing jumper to slave, as their both the same size and partitioned with drive letters and paths the same, but won't windows trip over two master boot records Thanks again Paul
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Thanks you all for the fast replies I thought about taking out the old drive and changing jumper to slave, as their both the same size and partitioned with drive letters and paths the same, but won't windows trip over two master boot records Thanks again Paul
PaulCurry wrote: but won't windows trip over two master boot records it won't even notice.... having multiple boot disks at home for a specific reason.... Bios has a boot order list, it tries one, if it fails, it tries another. When the bios boot list finds a bootable object, it begins the boot process from the master boot record (which then starts windows, etc.) But once boot occurs, every other disk is a data drive. PaulCurry wrote: I thought about taking out the old drive and changing jumper to slave, or put them on different IDE chains (preferred if you have the cable), then you don't have to change the jumper. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Half the fun of getting a new machine is installing everything from scratch again. It's like a spring clean, you get to wash out all those little bits of dirt that built up over the years. And if you're really lucky someone else pays you to do it too.
Ðavid Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Audioscrobbler :: flickrDie Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen
David Wulff wrote: Half the fun of getting a new machine is installing everything from scratch again. It's like a spring clean, you get to wash out all those little bits of dirt that built up over the years. And if you're really lucky someone else pays you to do it too. And you skip problems with "almost recognizing drivers" (hardware that is similar enough it attempts to load drivers, and blue-screens). I always do a fresh install, safer... and you get to look at all the blinking lights you just bought. :D _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Half the fun of getting a new machine is installing everything from scratch again. It's like a spring clean, you get to wash out all those little bits of dirt that built up over the years. And if you're really lucky someone else pays you to do it too.
Ðavid Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Audioscrobbler :: flickrDie Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen