How to transfer data from one laptop to another...?
I have a 10+ year old computer that has served me quite well and is still working.
I bought a new one recently and am getting used to it (Windows 10, other program UI's, etc)
What is he best way to transfer data from the old one to the new? I know I could drop stuff to a thumb drive and physically move it over. I do not use any cloud based services so that is out.
I do not believe that I can connect the USB from one computer to a USB of the other (can I?) ...but this is essentially what I want to do, but not sure how each others' "C" drive would be recognized. I guess I would like to have some sort of direct wired connection between the two in order to transfer.
I do have a 4T external hard drive, but that is, for all intents and purposes, is just a larger thumb drive in terms of transfer method. I am not some IT wizard in terms of technology and if it going to be big production or if there is a chance of screwing up the new one I will eventually take the time to archive to the external drive and then piece-meal the restoration to the new one as needed.
The new one is quite a performance improvement over the old! I especially like the solid state hard drive, Xenon and 64GHz ram along with all the other goodies. Only regret is not dropping a little more jack to step up the video card again. I intend to use it fro AutoCAD, REVIT, Sketch-up and Lumion.
I bought a new one recently and am getting used to it (Windows 10, other program UI's, etc)
What is he best way to transfer data from the old one to the new? I know I could drop stuff to a thumb drive and physically move it over. I do not use any cloud based services so that is out.
I do not believe that I can connect the USB from one computer to a USB of the other (can I?) ...but this is essentially what I want to do, but not sure how each others' "C" drive would be recognized. I guess I would like to have some sort of direct wired connection between the two in order to transfer.
I do have a 4T external hard drive, but that is, for all intents and purposes, is just a larger thumb drive in terms of transfer method. I am not some IT wizard in terms of technology and if it going to be big production or if there is a chance of screwing up the new one I will eventually take the time to archive to the external drive and then piece-meal the restoration to the new one as needed.
The new one is quite a performance improvement over the old! I especially like the solid state hard drive, Xenon and 64GHz ram along with all the other goodies. Only regret is not dropping a little more jack to step up the video card again. I intend to use it fro AutoCAD, REVIT, Sketch-up and Lumion.
