Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community  

Go Back   Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community > Interests > Tilted Technology


 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 08-05-2004, 05:36 PM   #1 (permalink)
Crazy
 
Location: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
transferring data from my PC to a new Mac

I have this dinosaur of a laptop. It's a four year old Vaio with seven keys that don't work, a six GB hard drive, 192 MB of RAM (that's as far as it can go) CD/DVD ROM, etc. Although it does have 2 USB ports, which was pretty advanced for the time. Still runs Windows 98, Pentium III processor.

Stop that laughing. I'm broke.

I picked up another job this summer and am putting the money toward a new laptop. I've already decided I'm getting an iBook. I use my computer mainly for internet and writing, and I'll be downloading music, and the iBook will do that just fine. Don't need all the bells and whistles on the PowerBook. But that's not the point.

Point is: Does anyone have suggestions for efficient ways of transferring my information? I looked at Apple's guide on how to transfer your files over from a PC, but they all require a CD burner, which I don't have built into my laptop. My laptop is my only computer. I was thinking of a USB key, but if worst came to worst, I could email all my files to my Gmail account and store them there (they don't even take up a GB of space) and then download them to my new Mac. I have files in Word and Excel, plus a few MP3s (or they might be .wav files...not sure), and some photos in jpg format. I already have MS Office for the Mac, and yes I know Word can be evil, but I have to use it because of my work.

Thanks!
__________________
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large. I contain multitudes.

-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Cedar is offline  
Old 08-05-2004, 06:23 PM   #2 (permalink)
Tilted F*ckhead
 
Church's Avatar
 
Location: New Jersey
I don't really know, but would a crossover cable work? I'm not sure if the mac or the pc would recognize one another though.
__________________
Through counter-intelligence, it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble makers, and neutralize them.
Church is offline  
Old 08-05-2004, 06:51 PM   #3 (permalink)
Crazy
 
Location: Clifton Park, NY
I'd say networking the two is the way to go.
crony is offline  
Old 08-06-2004, 06:28 AM   #4 (permalink)
Devoted
 
Redlemon's Avatar
 
Donor
Location: New England
If your Vaio has an ethernet port, this looks like a good article:
MacDevCenter.com: Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs

Or get the USB key. Those are very handy to have around anyway.
__________________
I can't read your signature. Sorry.
Redlemon is offline  
Old 08-06-2004, 01:34 PM   #5 (permalink)
All Possibility, Made Of Custard
 
quadro2000's Avatar
 
Location: New York, NY
Cynthetiq just helped me with this not two weeks ago. I connected a four-year old Gateway running win98 to an OS X PowerBook. I'll alert him to this thread, and see if he has anything to add.

(this assumes that both computers have ethernet ports. And you don't need ethernet crossover cables, just two regular ones.)

First, I used a hub - any hub will do, I used one similar to this one but I'm sure someone else around here could direct you towards a reliable/cheap one.

I took my ethernet line to the internet and plugged that into the uplink port of the hub (to give both internet access - I don't think this is absolutely necessary), then I plugged both the win98 machine and the PB into the hub as well.

Then, I followed these instructions, and they worked perfectly.

Good luck....post and let us know how it goes...
__________________
You have to laugh at yourself...because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't. - Emily Saliers
quadro2000 is offline  
Old 08-06-2004, 08:57 PM   #6 (permalink)
Addict
 
Location: Portland
I recently did this too... getting all the files off of various friends' computers' I'd been using and getting them all onto my iBook. I tried all of the above/below, so here's my suggestions:

- If you have the desire to get a USB key or external HD (which might be good if you plan on downloading alot of music), then this would be the ideal time to get one, and the easiest way to do it (plug things in, and they should auto detect, wam bam, you're done)
- - Your local computer store may even be able to rent you a CDR or external HD for this purpose..?

- Networking will be fast and easy if you're knowledgable in networking and want to configure all of that... buuut... that ended up being alot of hassle for me (though two Macs is REALLY easy)

- If you can't get an external HD, then, imho, the easiest thing will be to email it all to yourself. Since you have a Gmail account this shouldn't be a problem.. except that Gmail only does one file at a time afaik.. so open a Zipping program on your PC (you can download a "full free trial" if need be), and create a zip with all your files. Zips can be easily opened by the Stuffit program on your new Mac =)

good luck!
PulpMind is offline  
Old 08-06-2004, 09:41 PM   #7 (permalink)
Tilted Cat Head
 
Cynthetiq's Avatar
 
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
nice. I don't have anything more to add than what has already been added...

good luck!
__________________
I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.
Cynthetiq is offline  
Old 08-07-2004, 04:35 PM   #8 (permalink)
Insane
 
Location: Just West of Hell
I'd go for the networking approach, although everybody that can utilize USB should have a thumb drive.

You don't even have to buy a hub if you have a friend that has a broadband router with a switch built in (it will have five ethernet ports in back of the router).

The router will handle issuing IP addresses to both your old laptop and the Mac. You then just have to share out the c:\ drive from your old computer and mount in on your Mac. Then it's just drag and drop to your new computer!

This may sound difficult, but it's really not. Even if you're not quite sure what you're doing, fumble around a little. You'll learn a lot about how both computers work doing this.

And, of course, you always have us to fall back on!
__________________
Pimps and Ho's - it's this generation's cowboys and indians
beejay is offline  
 

Tags
data, mac, transferring

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 10:10 PM.

Tilted Forum Project

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
© 2002-2012 Tilted Forum Project

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360