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In article <874556212.1978@dejanews.com>, ericass@hotmail.com wrote:

>I just got a new computer, and I'm looking for the easiest way to transfer
>stuff from the old computer to the new one.  Any help is most appreciated!

I had to do that this week. I plugged the disc from the old Machine into
the new one and dragged everything across.

With your system this might be more difficult though.

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ericass@hotmail.com wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I just got a new computer, and I'm looking for the easiest way to transfer
> stuff from the old computer to the new one.  Any help is most appreciated!
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Direct cable conection is one way, I have never used it as bought pcs
must have win95 on them to use it. I use Laplink for dos have used it
with msdos 5.00,6.00,6.22 and 7.00 (win95) and IBM dos. all you need
is a serial cable or a line printer cable. and Laplink installed on
bought pcs. The line printer port is faster then serial port
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ericass@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> I just got a new computer, and I'm looking for the easiest way to
transfer
> stuff from the old computer to the new one.  Any help is most
appreciated!

There are 3 good ways:

1) Backup & restore using an external tape, such as a ditto or DAT
tape (or large format floppy disk drive such as a zip or jazz drive).
 Using a tape drive, hooked up via the parallel port, backup the all
the drives on the old system and restore the info to the new system's
drives.  It is a very good idea to backup your old system anyway. 
(And if you don't have a good backup method, you will be VERY sorry
someday.)

2) If you have access to a high speed network (Ethernet or token
ring) backup everything to a server's disk via the net and restore to
the new system.  This is not easy because you have get all of the
network software installed and running on the new machine first. 
Don't try this via a modem or serial port as it will take days to
transfer the data.

3) Open up both machines, remove the hard drive from the old one and
install it in the new one.  Then just copy.  This is the fastest
method by far but requires a good knowledge of installing hard drives
(i.e., jumpers, BIOS, and the compatibility of makes)

If you aren't a computer wiz, I recommend method #1. (besides, if you
don't already have a good backup system, you need one)

Good Luck.

On 19 Sep 97 19:41:58 GMT, "nospam" <nospam@ihot.com> wrote:

>
>ericass@hotmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> I just got a new computer, and I'm looking for the easiest way to
>transfer
>> stuff from the old computer to the new one.  Any help is most
>appreciated!
>

Provided you have already backed up, there is a program called
'link-lang' that works very well, it pretty much creates a mirrored
drive and is relativly simple to use..you should be able to find more
info on the product specifically through www.lycos.com or any other
search engine....perhaps someone reading this knows where exactly....





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In article <01bcc534$8e7784e0$21bad3cf@me>,
	"nospam" <nospam@ihot.com> writes:
> 
> ericass@hotmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> I just got a new computer, and I'm looking for the easiest way to
> transfer
>> stuff from the old computer to the new one.  Any help is most
> appreciated!
> 
> There are 3 good ways:
> 
> 1) Backup & restore using an external tape, such as a ditto or DAT
> tape (or large format floppy disk drive such as a zip or jazz drive).
>  Using a tape drive, hooked up via the parallel port, backup the all
> the drives on the old system and restore the info to the new system's
> drives.  It is a very good idea to backup your old system anyway. 
> (And if you don't have a good backup method, you will be VERY sorry
> someday.)
> 
> 2) If you have access to a high speed network (Ethernet or token
> ring) backup everything to a server's disk via the net and restore to
> the new system.  This is not easy because you have get all of the
> network software installed and running on the new machine first. 
> Don't try this via a modem or serial port as it will take days to
> transfer the data.
> 
> 3) Open up both machines, remove the hard drive from the old one and
> install it in the new one.  Then just copy.  This is the fastest
> method by far but requires a good knowledge of installing hard drives
> (i.e., jumpers, BIOS, and the compatibility of makes)
> 
> If you aren't a computer wiz, I recommend method #1. (besides, if you
> don't already have a good backup system, you need one)

I would recommend:

1) Don't buy any expensive hardware to simply a copy a disk.

2) Don't buy any expensive network hardware or spend any time
   configuring network software to simply copy a disk.

3) Don't take apart any machines to simple copy a disk.

An elegant, and often overlooked way of linking two Windows-95
machines is the ole' Microsoft "Interlnk/Intersvr" included 
with DOS 6.0+.  

Get a serial cable.  Null modem or bi-directional parallel. 

Run "intersvr.exe" on one machine and "interlnk.exe" on the other.

This involves typing "intersvr" on the server and inserting the line 
"device=interlnk.exe" in the client's config.sys. 

Run Windows-95.

You will have access to all your disks on the server.  They appear
just as "normal disks" in "my computer".  It is totally transparent to 
Windows 95. Yes, long filenames are preserved.

Then copy your disks.

It is much easier than setting up a "direct cable connection" or 
using special "laplink" software.  They are very small and you can
use them with any Microsoft Operating Shitstem.  There is nothing
to install or configure. 

INTERLNK EXE     17197 03-10-93   6:00a
INTERSVR EXE     37314 03-10-93   6:00a
        2 file(s)      54511 bytes                                             

Unfortunately MS thought it would be best not to include such a simple
and elegant way of linking a couple of Windows-95 machines with 
Windows 95.  You will need to find a copy of DOS 6 or 6.22 for 
these utilities.

Best of Luck


"Sell no wine, before its time"
	

>On 19 Sep 97 19:41:58 GMT, "nospam" <nospam@ihot.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>ericass@hotmail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> I just got a new computer, and I'm looking for the easiest way to
>>transfer
>>> stuff from the old computer to the new one.  Any help is most
>>appreciated!

The easiest way is to install networking on both machines and use the
Network Neighborhood with sharing to transfer whole directories
en-masse. But this requires network interface hardware on both
machines. Next best thing is direct cable connection. Point your
browser to http://www.tecno.demon.co.uk/dcc.html for complete DCC
coverage. Last, and in this case least, is serial links through either
a commercial product like LapLink or Timbuktu or DCC.

Dave

In article <3427c6b2.1613185707@lll-winken.llnl.gov>, fuess@llnl.gov (David A. Fuess) wrote:
>>On 19 Sep 97 19:41:58 GMT, "nospam" <nospam@ihot.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>ericass@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I just got a new computer, and I'm looking for the easiest way to
>>>transfer
>>>> stuff from the old computer to the new one.  Any help is most
>>>appreciated!
>
>The easiest way is to install networking on both machines and use the
>Network Neighborhood with sharing to transfer whole directories
>en-masse. But this requires network interface hardware on both
>machines. Next best thing is direct cable connection. Point your
>browser to http://www.tecno.demon.co.uk/dcc.html for complete DCC
>coverage. Last, and in this case least, is serial links through either
>a commercial product like LapLink or Timbuktu or DCC.

I wonder.... How hard would it be to configure a SLIP/PPP server, and a 
dial-up client to work over a null-modem cable? This seems the obvious 
solution. 

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