File transfers
 

I am getting a new machine al put together and hope to have it up and running this afternoon. For all you geeks out there I am upgrading from a home build dual p3 1ghz, 768ram, 60gig, crappy ass video TO p4 3.2GHz, 1gb, 160gig SATA, 256 geforce, creative 7.1.


I only have the one monitor on here which I will be using, and one kb and mouse, so what would be the best way for me to get my mp3 collection over to the new machine, normally I would just burn them off onto a data DVD or something but with roughly 30 gigs I do not feel like doing all them burns or wasting the disks to be frank. Most everything else I want/need I have the installer and serial or original disks still all tucked away and anything else I can just re dl and use the pw recovery function of the company website or something, I am just concerned about losing all my music.

60gig

What kind of drive it this? Sounds like you have SATA since the new drive is, and you've likely got E/IDE ports too. Just plug both into the new motherboard and directly transfer? Or, if you're not comfortable installing the hard drive yourself -- leave both boxes running and transfer via 1394/Ethernet. It'll take longer than the direct transfer, but it'll work..

ya know, I never bothered to see if I could use SATA and or ide on the new one, my current setup is ide with no SATA connections on it.

yeah pull the old hdd and throw it on an ide channel in the new box temporarily and copy what you want over, or just set the old box to share C, fire it up without keyboard or mouse or monitor and browse to it from the new one. Unless it is set to halt on keyboard error it will boot to windows login and you can access network shares at that point.

easiest way is like already said - hook the old drive up to the new machine temporarily to copy.

if you go the network route just make sure both computers are in the same workgroup, turn off the firewall and check BIOS to turn off halt on keyboard before you reboot your old machine with nothing but the power and network plugged into it. you can share c, or just map the drive using \\computername\c$