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What is best way to transfer files and data from old laptop to new
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If less than 1TB, then you could use a flash drive. If more, then you could use a external HDD. A NAS device would be ideal if you are doing this pretty frequently.There is no week nor day nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves -- and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance -- Tyranny may always enter -- there is no charm, no bar against it -- the only bar against it is a large resolute breed of men.
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Data transfer cable?Comment
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OK ThanksComment
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Remove drive from old laptop, attach to new laptop with USB to SATA cable. You can connect your old drive directly, and copy off the files you need.
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Don't bother with the \progra*, or the \windows folders unless you know something special you need there... Specifically.
I used to boot to Knoppix on non-blocking Windows machines, and copy data to shares on a win-box, but it's been a while...Comment
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OK I have billing data and files and pics to move over/Comment
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Throw them on a usb thumb drive. If that's all you need to transfer. Or just save them on a cloud so you don't lose them if you get a HD failureComment
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OK good ideaComment
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I just cut and paste onto a portable drive of appropriate size.10/15/2022 - Called to get on the list
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Someone gave me a zip drive could i use that.Comment
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Zip drives are very slow and the disks are not very large. If you have a lot of files and/or large files, it won't be very efficient.
If you have a router connect both machines to it using either wifi or cable. Using Windoze File Explorer you can easily copy files from one machine to the other.
I updated my laptop yesterday and had to transfer some files from my workstation to the laptop--worked a treat, and was very fast.
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I paid $150 for a WD 4TB HD recently.
It might be a good investment so you can regularly backup your hard drive(s).
I have 3 portable hard drives over 1TB to back up all of my programs and data.
I have one that is a mirror that can be swapped out if/when the other fails.
The best system is a RAID, with multiple mirrored hard drives.10/15/2022 - Called to get on the list
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Costco had a 6TB backup drive. I copied all my old laptop stuff to it and then transferred what I wanted to the new laptop. About every 6 mos I save everything to the BU driveComment
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