How do I transfer data and software from old computer to new one?

Question

I've heard of a usb cable which hooks the two machines together for a direct transfer.

Answer 1

You can get such cable, which may even include a copy of Laplink, in Office Depot or Best Buy or Circuit City. It's packaged by Belkin last I checked.

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=275561

You can order generic ones off the net, but they may not come with software.

http://www.usb-ware.com/usb-2-usb-data-link-file-transfer-cable-uc250.htm

Answer 2

There are courses on the industry, which includes Norton Ghost andpersistent image, that allow you to make a picture of the content fabric of one confusingpersistent and then installation it on different workstation. whether, once you are attempting this, it copies each and everything. alongside with each and all the undesirable sectors, the incorrect drivers for the computer, the fragmented documents and any registry blunders, orphaned documents, undesirable gadget documents, and so on. on the previous confusingpersistent. till you're copying between 2 same computer, the photos will introduce blunders and problems on on your new computer. it is going to additionally wipe each and everything at present on the computer, alongside with each and all the drives for the computer. with out those, no sound, no video, no cyber web, and so on. confusing to reinstall those drivers on the computer with video and cyber web. additionally, simply by fact the imaging courses makes a "perfect replica" of the previous confusingpersistent on the hot, if the previous computer has a 20 gbpersistent, and the hot one a 320 gbpersistent, once you do the clone it could convert the partition of the hot computer to in basic terms a 20 gbpersistent. mutually as you could replica over your information documents (song, video clips, documents, photos, and so on.), you could no longer (and shouldn't) attempt to repeat over courses from the previous computer. you will introduce too many blunders into the hot computer.

Answer 3

put the stuff you need on an external hard drive for the data. The software could be trickier. You usually need the codes that came with the discs to put software on a new computer.

Answer 4

you can pull the harddrive out of the old computer and hook it up to the new one and transfer the files alot faster than doing it with cables.........

Answer 5

hook up a usb cord and use windows transfer wizard....