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getting new PC....what to transfer
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Hi,
it depends on what you have....
Your Email etc. may be exportable depending on what you use ( Outlook and Outlook Express will work that way)
Any documents you created and still want are candidates for copying as well...
One way to be more sure you got what you want would be to invest in an external hard drive ( USB ones of large capacity are relatively cheap) - plug it into the Dell, copy all the stuff you might need, including everything under your User folder and place it in some other named folder on the external drive.
Leave the Dell alone until you are sure you have all you need - by using the external drive you can 'go back' and get more things if needed.
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it depends on what you have....
Your Email etc. may be exportable depending on what you use ( Outlook and Outlook Express will work that way)
Any documents you created and still want are candidates for copying as well...
One way to be more sure you got what you want would be to invest in an external hard drive ( USB ones of large capacity are relatively cheap) - plug it into the Dell, copy all the stuff you might need, including everything under your User folder and place it in some other named folder on the external drive.
Leave the Dell alone until you are sure you have all you need - by using the external drive you can 'go back' and get more things if needed.
To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."
hi,
some months ago, I had the same situation:
I attached a USB disk to old pc, and booted from
BartPE CD (very useful tool): then copied my 2 HD-Partition
(C:,D
on 2 folders DiskC and DiskD.
Installed new PC, I connected USB disk to it, and copied
all in new HD under a folder "OldPC".
These 2 operations have been done with
long elapsded time, but my intervent has been low (weekend).
Off oldPC and USB one, I began the "Think-ed" task,
without terror to forget someting.
- Moved documents from old to new (deleting someting)
- sometime I go to pick in Favourites to retrieve links
- when an application is going in new PC, I delete all from old ProgramFile related dir.
.....
.....
Today on old dirs, remained few GBs, but I have always
with me.
bye
vic
some months ago, I had the same situation:
I attached a USB disk to old pc, and booted from
BartPE CD (very useful tool): then copied my 2 HD-Partition
(C:,D
on 2 folders DiskC and DiskD.Installed new PC, I connected USB disk to it, and copied
all in new HD under a folder "OldPC".
These 2 operations have been done with
long elapsded time, but my intervent has been low (weekend).
Off oldPC and USB one, I began the "Think-ed" task,
without terror to forget someting.
- Moved documents from old to new (deleting someting)
- sometime I go to pick in Favourites to retrieve links
- when an application is going in new PC, I delete all from old ProgramFile related dir.
.....
.....
Today on old dirs, remained few GBs, but I have always
with me.
bye
vic
goombawaho
MIS
Here's my take on what to get/save as soon as possible.
E-mail if downloaded to the PC. Different procedures for the particular e-mail client you are running (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc.).
C:\documents and settings\YourUserName
This gets your favorites and most of your data UNLESS you are saving to unusual places on the hard drive.
Bookmarks.htm if you are running Firefox
Get one of these to easily transfer your old data to your new hard drive and just hold on to it indefinitely. It's not a one time shot.
E-mail if downloaded to the PC. Different procedures for the particular e-mail client you are running (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc.).
C:\documents and settings\YourUserName
This gets your favorites and most of your data UNLESS you are saving to unusual places on the hard drive.
Bookmarks.htm if you are running Firefox
Get one of these to easily transfer your old data to your new hard drive and just hold on to it indefinitely. It's not a one time shot.
Easiest is to just put HD in as a secondary, then you also have applications and such. Or get a hard drive enclosure with usb connections.
But as a rule for me, everything under My Documents and export all emails and address book.
If you dont make the hard drive secondary, then make sure you know where any app is saving your info and copy that over.
But as a rule for me, everything under My Documents and export all emails and address book.
If you dont make the hard drive secondary, then make sure you know where any app is saving your info and copy that over.
SimonDavies
MIS
If I am honest I would probably Ghost the disk and use Ghost Explorer on it should you need to access anything off it.
Failing that an alternative approach would be to virtualise it, get a hold of VMware Workstation and that way you can power up the old machine whilst using the new machine (obviously disk sizing could be an issue but generally speaking hd's aren't that expensive these days).
I think out of the two approaches the VMware approach is a little more friendly although initially harder to set up (mainly due to the cost and P2V) but at least that way if\when you need it you can just power it up and have it there straight away, even better is that as long as you have the VMware tools installed onto the old machine you can drag and drop your data from Virtual to Physical as well.
Simon
The real world is not about exam scores, it's about ability.
Failing that an alternative approach would be to virtualise it, get a hold of VMware Workstation and that way you can power up the old machine whilst using the new machine (obviously disk sizing could be an issue but generally speaking hd's aren't that expensive these days).
I think out of the two approaches the VMware approach is a little more friendly although initially harder to set up (mainly due to the cost and P2V) but at least that way if\when you need it you can just power it up and have it there straight away, even better is that as long as you have the VMware tools installed onto the old machine you can drag and drop your data from Virtual to Physical as well.
Simon
The real world is not about exam scores, it's about ability.
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