Transfer files from old desktop to G1S ???

Hey everyone! I'll buy the G1S next month (it'll be my first notebook ) and I was wondering if there is way to transfer files from my old desktop to the G1S directly ??

The only other solution I had was to burn files on rewritable DVDs and make the transfer, which is kinda long...

 

I would buy a USB 2.5'' HDD enclosure, remove your HDD from your G1, insert it in the USB HDD enclosure, plug it into your desktop and copy your information, thet would be quite fast and relatively cheap becuase you are just buying the enclosure This is what I did, but I took the HDD out of my old laptop plased in an Argosy HD260 http://www.amazon.com/Argosy-HD-260-enclosure-Hi-Speed/dp/B0002Z16XS to copy files to my new laptop.

you can buy USB cables that come with software that when you plug in two computers you can use a windows explorer type interface to copy files, equally as cheap and you dont have to open your chassis, but I like theabove option, then you have an external 2.5'' enclosure for future use.

 

I recommend using the USB cables, as technically you would be spending twice the amount of time if you use an external hard drive.(uploading, and then downloading)

 

Thanks! But how... I only plug both pcs together with a USB cable is that what youre proposing? Im sorry Im not a pro in those kinda thing

 

Oh! Thank you I like that solution haha but the "explorer interface" got me a little lost... I dont know what I'll have to do after I plugged noth computers together with the USB cable...

 

Well not really, it requires physical removal of one drive, place it in an enclosure, hook up to PC and copy files directly to your formatted drive, but you have to be comfortable physically removing one HDD from either your PC or Laptop so you only have to copy once, so for this instance probaly a bit too much work.

It is really easy, install the software that comes with the cable, plug the cable into both PC and Laptop, run the software it opens and shows both computers connected and then you can simply browse files and folders for both computers and drag and drop or copy and paste between computers, if both computers have usb 2.0 it should be quite fast however if your old PC only has USB 1.1, it may be a bit slower, but would prefer that from copying onto DVDs

Check these out
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8199/
http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/522387/art/belkin/usb-2-0-male-male-easy-tr.html
http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=102466

there are many types, but most work the same.

 

Thank you!!! Ill choose one of those

 

Even less expensive (< 1 USD if you make your own cable), get or make an inverter UTP network cable, configure your network cards consistently between the two machines (subnet masks must match and the two machines must have different IPs for that mask, and that should pretty much do it), and then plug the cable.

Link from the notebook to the desktop using the default Admin Shares on all the partitions, and copy at GigaBit speeds from one machine to the other (assuming your desktop card supports GB ethernet; but even 100MB ethernet should nearly max out a 5400RPM HDD and not be a real bottleneck).

Need to make sure firewalls allow incoming/outgoing connections from/to the respective machines.

 

Niceone, is that just using an ethernet cable? I wouldn't mind finding out the procedure for setting that one up, I would also like to know how to set up sharing of files over two WIFI enabled laptops, might have to do some research.

 

I used an external HDD. It only took an hour, plus I keep a back up of all the PCs in the house in one place.

 

Its a good idea too But ideally the less extra money I have to spend, the best solution it is haha

 

Yep, just an ethernet cable; but it has to be an crossover cable (sorry earlier I said "inverter" cable using an English false-friend from my language).

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable

Admin sharing should be enabled by default at least on XP. They can be accessed like this:

\\[IP]\C$
\\[IP]\D$
\\[IP]\E$

etc.

So if your machines are in the same LAN and the firewalls allow the connections, you can just type that in the Explorer bar and then enter your admin account and password on the remote machine, and you are connected.