transferring files from old computer to new one

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I've read about a dozen articles now on xferring files using some rj45
cable and setting workgroups and ip addresses etc ad infinitum. Is it
not possible to just remove the old hard drive and attach it
temporarily to the new box? Assuming you have the extra power/cable
socket in the new box, wouldn't it just come up as E: or F: or whatever
as a new drive on Windows, and then you could just drag and drop the
info across each other? Or am I missing something obvious here?
Thx
 
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I've read about a dozen articles now on xferring files using some rj45
cable and setting workgroups and ip addresses etc ad infinitum. Is it
not possible to just remove the old hard drive and attach it
temporarily to the new box? Assuming you have the extra power/cable
socket in the new box, wouldn't it just come up as E: or F: or
whatever as a new drive on Windows, and then you could just drag and
drop the info across each other? Or am I missing something obvious
here?
Thx
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That works just fine actually. You may be interested in this:

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Additionally, if you're just starting this project out then you can actually
"cheat" a bit...

Take the drive you have in the old one and clone it to the new one:

Backup! Image/Clone :
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html

Once that's done just do a repair installation on the new system (you might
as well remove the old drive first) and you can just use the new CD key with
it and you'll not even have to re-install all your applications.

Repair Installation of XP :
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/xprepair.html

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes
 
Are you transferring files from an existent XP OS? If so easiest thing to do is to use a program called xxclone...http://xxclone.com/iwhatis.htm





| I've read about a dozen articles now on xferring files using some rj45
| cable and setting workgroups and ip addresses etc ad infinitum. Is it
| not possible to just remove the old hard drive and attach it
| temporarily to the new box? Assuming you have the extra power/cable
| socket in the new box, wouldn't it just come up as E: or F: or whatever
| as a new drive on Windows, and then you could just drag and drop the
| info across each other? Or am I missing something obvious here?
| Thx
|
 
Galen said:
In mjk5151 <[email protected]> had this to say:

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That works just fine actually. You may be interested in this:

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Additionally, if you're just starting this project out then you can
actually "cheat" a bit...

Take the drive you have in the old one and clone it to the new one:

Backup! Image/Clone :
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html

Once that's done just do a repair installation on the new system (you
might as well remove the old drive first) and you can just use the new CD
key with it and you'll not even have to re-install all your applications.

Repair Installation of XP :
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/xprepair.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes
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Is there any issue with a drive with a primary partition and an OS on it
being set up as a slave? Just curious.
 
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Is there any issue with a drive with a primary partition and an OS on
it being set up as a slave? Just curious.
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Shouldn't be any problems at all as the C:\boot.ini file will be the one
read on boot thus the system will not (hopefully) see the other drive as
even bootable or containing an OS.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes
 
Hello mjk5151,

I agree however, I might consider you take the drive from the older computer
and connect it as a slave device (set the drive jumper) and plug it into the
secondary IDE channel on the main (mother) board of the newer computer. You
might need something on the same cable to be set as master device, maybe a
CD drive or something.

Maybe not necessary with WinXP, but I would approach it this way to help
hide the old OS.

Also, when your through copping your files, unplug the old drive and give
yourself several weeks or months to remember that neat Christmas card you
worked on so hard 3 years ago, or whatever, before doing anything else with
the drive (in the new system anyway).

After your sure you've gotten everything, plug the drive back up, remove the
partitions to clean it up real good, create new partition(s) as you see fit,
reformat it (maybe NTSF if using WinXP), select the slow format option, I
believe this will check the old drive for bad clusters while formatting.

You might also re-cable the drive as a master device (set the jumper) and
leave it on the secondary IDE channel.

Then you can use the old drive for personal files.

Best regards,
Richard in Va.
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