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| Thread ID: 96697 | 2009-01-19 20:25:00 | Transfering data from Windows 98 to XP | dallas (14539) | PC World Chat |
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| 740280 | 2009-02-17 20:28:00 | Take the drive out. | pctek (84) | ||
| 740281 | 2009-02-17 20:41:00 | Take the drive out. When I have done any upgrades the last decade I have used the old hard drive as a second (backup) drive on the new computer. The result is now my backup hard drive has heaps of room on it. It does make me feel happier about my first line of backups as they are done automatically every morning at 11:00am. I do have the work done by a pretty good technician - not me. And of course I am talking desktops - not laptops. A method not mentioned so far by anybody is to drop all the files down onto a 3.5 floppy. Ha yes but then the modern computer does not have a floppy drive. But some laggards still have them (I'm one of them) and as they will also have a CD or DVD writer can transfer the files over for you. |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 740282 | 2009-02-18 00:42:00 | Burn everything that you intend to transfer to DVD or CD then put the disk/s into the other computer and transfer them where you wish, the advantage being that you will also have hard back up of the folders/files/.exe's. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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