Right my current desktop is nacked, its 3 years old and stuff keeps going wrong on it! i dont want to spend any money on it BUT i need to transfer large amount of data from it to new pc. Now i know you can network to do etc etc but i also need to back up my laptop stuff and all! Would an External hard drive to preserve the integrity of my data etc be the way forward? I am sick of having hundreds of ming cd's kicking around by the way!
Have you tried shutting down and restarting
Better solution would be to buy 2 PC network cards, 1 wireless laptop network card, router and some cable and just network the 3 PCs together. Then use the old one as a file server, the new one for work, and the lapper anywhere in the house.
I bet a re-install of windows would sort it out.
- remove hard drive from old PC- open up new PC and mount old hard drive as a slave drive.- either leave it in the new PC, or copy everything over and then replace it in the old one.
Quote- remove hard drive from old PC- open up new PC and mount old hard drive as a slave drive.- either leave it in the new PC, or copy everything over and then replace it in the old one.can I still do this if the old drive is win98 and the new one xp??????/
I don't see why not - XP should be able to read a FAT 32 disk ok.Once you've copied everything, just reformat the old disk to NTFS and use it as a second drive.