File Transfer Help Sought (1 Viewer)

[EdHoch]

Greetings,

Recently purchased a new PC to replace my 6 year old HP Pavilion and am wondering how best to transfer files and applications (email, Quicken, Turbotax, etc) from the old PC to the new.

The old PC has a 3.5 in floppy and a (Read only) CD-Rom drive. The new one has a 3.5 and a writable CD-DVD Rom.

I have heard about packages with software and a two headed USB port cord which allows for transfer without using a bunch of floppies. However, I don't know how well they work, or how expensive they are.

Any advice? Or should I just buy a pack of 3.5 in floppies and go from there.

Thanks in advance!

Ed

 

[John*Jones]

If you don't have that much info, floppies are fine. I usually just take the harddrive from the old pc and install it as a slave in the new pc. Usually windows will recognize it and assign it a drive letter (ex. D and you can access it from windows explorer.

You'll have to re-install all of your applications, so the original install cds are needed.

Cheers,

John