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  • January 16, 2001 at 10:02 am #2112722

    Transferring Hard Drive Data

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    by d.b.cooper · about 24 years, 3 months ago

    What would be the best way to transfer data from a hard drive from an previous computer to a new one?

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    • January 16, 2001 at 10:57 am #3851895

      Transferring Hard Drive Data

      by richard_barsby · about 24 years, 3 months ago

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      Hi assuming the coputers are both of the same type ie mac or pc the hanging the hard drive as a slave is the quickest way to transfer data. The next is adding network cards to both and last of all direct cable connection using laplink or a similar software.

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      R.K.Barsby

    • January 16, 2001 at 9:30 pm #3839340

      Transferring Hard Drive Data

      by hclarius · about 24 years, 3 months ago

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      Probably the easiest would be to install the old hard drive as a slave in the new computer and copy the files.
      Either way you do it, do not expect to just copy installed programs from one drive to the other. You should re-install software. Data you can copy.

    • January 16, 2001 at 9:39 pm #3839332

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      by geroxx · about 24 years, 3 months ago

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      If you are not able to follow the great suggestion from above. You may want to look into getting some disk cloning software. Norton Ghost works pretty well. It will burn an image of a partition and compress it for you. If the image is not too big you can even have it copy the image across ZIP disks or burn it to a CD.

      Gary

    • January 16, 2001 at 11:32 pm #3839304

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      by agiias · about 24 years, 3 months ago

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      I regularly use direct cable connection (serial port,115K) WIN95 w/o any third party software. This may not be the best way; I find it the easiest.

    • January 17, 2001 at 2:18 am #3839169

      Transferring Hard Drive Data

      by d.b.cooper · about 24 years, 3 months ago

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