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Hi All, I'm getting a new cpu and need to know how to copy from my old computer's hard drive to the new computers hard drive. My old computer has no floppy drive a ROM CD drive, so is there a way to hook the two hard drives together? A USB cable perhaps? Thanks, Mike

63 TR4 Surrey Top
71 MBG OD & Wires
 
ha, take the old hard drive an put it in the new machine. Now you have two drives, cool enough.
 
New drive as "master" old one as "slave" on the same bus... oops. New drive may be SATA... still, IDE bus the old one and the O/S should see it then assign it a drive letter. Then just a matter of copy/paste.
 
Better copy all that data to a folder on the root directory. Otherwise you may have permission issues. Or, network the two computers together and transfer them directly from one computer to the other.
 
When I upgraded I had a program called "Intelemover". You run it on both machines and connect them with a USB cable. Then you can tell the "Master" exactly what you want copied to the new machine. Its fast and easy. I'm sure that have that program or similar at CompUSA for example.

Basil
 
Or just grab the mouse, raise it to yer gob and say: "Hello, computer!"
 
Thanks for the replies, nice to see that there is a variety of ways to accomplish my task. Thanks, Mike

63 TR4 Surrey Top
71 MGB OD & Wires
 
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