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corsaaa_16v
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16th Feb 09 at 22:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I have just received my new laptop and am wanting to tranfer all my data across.

I have 8GB worth of data made up of everything from photos to music to word/excel documents

What is the easiest, cheapest and transfer these to my new laptop?

I was thinking of buying an 8GB usb pen drive, savign them all on there then simply plugging that into my laptop to transfer them over. Would that work OK?

Sorry, Im a novice at all this IT stuff

Thanks
will_doyle
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16th Feb 09 at 22:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

that would work, and thats what I would do
Whittie
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16th Feb 09 at 22:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

You could get a 2gb usb pen for around £1 and do it that way, bit by bit. Just copying and pasting data.

Would save spending the extra £10 on an 8gb one for something you may not use again.
Whittie
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Or you could use an Ethernet cable and create a home network.
Whittie
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Or you could put it all in a big zip file, upload it to the internet, such as rapidshare / megaupload.

And just download it on your new computer
Whittie
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Or whack it on some dvd's / cd's
Whittie
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There's probably other ways too
corsaaa_16v
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16th Feb 09 at 22:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Haha, thanks mate

Think I may use an 8GB USB Pen Drive in future so will get one of them

Cheers guys
Matty SRi
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16th Feb 09 at 22:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

just get a usb cable? and connect it to the laptop and computer... wont take long to copy 8gb of data, or as whittie set, get an ethernet cable and set up a network and transfer it that way...
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16th Feb 09 at 23:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
You could get a 2gb usb pen for around £1 and do it that way, bit by bit. Just copying and pasting data.

Would save spending the extra £10 on an 8gb one for something you may not use again.


I use my 16 GB drive all the time, but I think I might get a 32GB one instead Downloading 720p movies using the uni connection only takes about 8 minutes @ 10MB/s, so I like to abuse it
nathy_87
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17th Feb 09 at 10:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

buy a usb cable from maplins or something plug into PC-Laptop then transfer

 
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