Hello: Not sure if this is the best place to post this or not. I just bought a new PC and am trying to transfer all of my content from my old (10 year old!) PC to my new one. I have installed most of the programs into the new PC already. Right now, I am looking to transfer all of my data content from my old PC. This is probably about 60 GB of files, mostly video MPGs as well as Word and Excel documents.
The old PC is an AMC clone that is Windows 2000 based. The new PC is an Emachine EL1300G-02w that is Windows XP based. By clicking on "My Network Places" on the new PC, it seems that you are able to network the two PCs together and do it that way, but the first option calls for a USB flash drive which I don't have and have never used (I don't reslly have any accessories or "techie" equipment apart from a digital camera which I have not set up yet).* I do have an external DVD burner, but it will take awhile to burn DVDs of content 4.5 GB at a time to transfer from one PC to another. Does anyone know of a better or faster way to do this? I am a relative novice when it comes to doing this kind of stuff. Any help or advice is very much appreciated!! Ron
*I do have an old hub which is a D-link DSH-16 (100baseT) which I doubt will be of much use. If it's anything above and beyond plugging each PC in with computer ethernet cable (which I do have) it will probably be over my head anyway.
If both computers have a USB port, then you might try a USB transfer cable to connect the two together. But you you'll need additional software to make it work. This article compares two options from LapLink and Belkin.
If both computers have ethernet ports, then you can use an ethernet crossover cable to network the two computers together.
Once connected you should see (or map) your old computer to appear as "drive" on your new computer. Then you can drag and drop files as needed.
Also, you can use an external USB hard drive to manually copy files to the external hard drive from the old computer. Once completed plug that same drive into your new computer and start transferring.
