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    Transferring Files

    Discussion in 'HP' started by onionion, Sep 6, 2006.

  1. onionion

    onionion Notebook Enthusiast

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    I want to transfer my music files from my desktop to my laptop. How should I go about this? Can I just hook my laptop up to my desktop via a usb and then drag files?

    Any advice would be appreciated.
     
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    Apathosaurus Notebook Consultant

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    If you have a crossover ethernet cable, you should be able to just connect them together and move from one to the other over that network. It's not the fastest thing in the world, though.

    How many (in GB, say) music files do you have to move?
     
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    eric06 Notebook Consultant

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    I use a flash drive or a cd-rw/r. You could also network the 2 pcs and copy and paste the files from one pc to the other.
     
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    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you have an external hard drive you could put all the music on there and then connect the external hard drive into the laptop.
    Tim
     
    Tim, Sep 6, 2006
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  5. Apathosaurus

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    An external hard drive would be ideal, but I'm guessing you would have already done that if you had one.
     
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    ZanyDog Notebook Guru

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    I used an old LinkSys router and 2 cat5 cables. The router provides the DHCP and is fairly fast (100mbit). Just set the same workgroup name and make the desktop C: drive shared.

    I went from laptop to laptop this way. My old laptop had USB 1.1 so flash was out of the question. :eek:

    Worked nice for me. Good luck!

    Zany
     
    ZanyDog, Sep 6, 2006
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