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Post Date: 2008-08-05
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    Posted: 05 Aug 2008 at 2:40pm
I'm ordering my new rig tomorrow and I would like suggestions for the best/most stable method of transferring data (music) from my older computer to my new one. I'd rather not buy an external drive, although that is an option down the road. I have an iOmega drive but the disks are a bit pricey and I have quite a bit of music to move.
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Remove the HD from the old computer and place it in the new computer.  Copy the files over and move the drive back or leave it in the new rig.
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Buy this: http://www.thetornado.com/tornado-about.asp
 
It's the best transfer tool out there. Work with XP-->XP and XP-->Vista. I learned about it in Maximum PC mag which gave it a 9/10 Editor's Choice award. I bought it from Staples for $50.
 
It works like a charm!!!
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how much room do you need to fit the files you want to move?

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Originally posted by david5182

Buy this: http://www.thetornado.com/tornado-about.asp
 
It's the best transfer tool out there. Work with XP-->XP and XP-->Vista. I learned about it in Maximum PC mag which gave it a 9/10 Editor's Choice award. I bought it from Staples for $50.
 
It works like a charm!!!


This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. The HD in my old system is 120 GB and I've been cleaning it up in preparation for the new rig. All I need to do is move music, my FireFox and Exploder bookmarks and my email, since all my docs are on a thumb drive.

Thanks for the recommendation!
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As a follow up on this post The Tornado is fantastic! It's simple to use and has made moving my music (so far still have a few gigs to go) easy. It'll be a piece of cake moving my documents and a few odds and ends once the music is done then I can use it on my parent's computers.

Thank you, again, for the suggestion!
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If they are both on a router. Setup an Ftp server on one (IE - Serv U). Then connect to that server with an ftp client (IE - Flash fxp). Using the Local ip address of the computer with the server. Its pretty easy.

Here is a tutorial on how to setup an ftp server with Serv U - http://www.insanitor.com/servu.htm - install this on the computer with the files

Here is a very good tutorial on how to use Flash fxp - http://www.ironiclogic.com/ftf/tutorials/flashfxp.html - install this on the computer you want to transfer too.

Hope this helps. Plus its free for the most part. :)


Edited by Randy - 30 Aug 2008 at 1:34am
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