Help me transfer 30GB to new laptop.

Hey guys, I don't exactly know where to post this and I could not find a dummy guide on it (please link me if there is one) but heres the situation.

I just bought a new Asus F8SN-B1 and it should be mailed to me from BTOTech any day now. However, I need about 30GB of Media files transfered from my current notebook and do not know how to go about doing that without an external HD or a painfully slow 1GB usb.

Please let me know how to do this. THX!

 

Create an ad hoc network between the two using wifi. Put all the files you want to transfer into your shared folder. Copy. Go clip your lawn with shears.

 

Here are a few things you could try:

1. You could burn them to DVDs, 4.5 or 9 gigs at a time.
2. Transfer it all at once using an ethernet connection through a router or using a twisted pair cable to connect one laptop directly to the other.
3. Use a wireless router and wireless cards, G or N should move it quite speedily.
4. If the new laptop has a secondary hard drive bay, take the hard drive out of the old laptop and place it in the new one, then copy the data directly from one drive to the other.

Hope that helps.

 

So if I set them up to the same network, just my basic wireless network, I could just copy them over through the wireless network? All bluetooth-like?

Sounds awesome (if I am getting this correct,) how fast or slow is that?

 

I have a similar situation. I want to tranfer about 50 gigs from my desktop to my new laptop. I have a couple of LAN cables and ethernet cards in both machines. I've connected them using a switch. Now what do I need to do to transfer the files. Using Network Connections, I can't seem to access the other computer from one computer (either way) ! Even though I've set all permissions correctly (I think) and have enabled file sharing, media sharing, etc... Do I need some particular software for this ? Please advice!

 

A switch isn't a router. A switch switches. You need a router, which routes.

 

Hmmm.... can't I still use it ? Do I need to buy a router, then ?

 

Yes, but not with bluetooth unless you are crazy. Use the wifi cards on your laptops. If you have wireless g and place the laptops close together, I think you can get a sustained throughput of 4 megabytes/second.

 

Most likely not. What is the switch actually built for? Allowing two computers to share one lan line?

Just spend $30 on a router and save yourself the headache.

 

WiFi is the most hassle-free solution, unless you have a USB HDD ready.

But the fastest is twisted LAN cable, usually laptops nowadays have 1Gbps Ethernet so you'll basically copy at the max throughput of the HDD.

 

No.. I'm not "just" going to spend $30 for a one-time transfer. Thanks though.
Anyway @ E.B.E. , now that you mentioned USB HDDs, I think I found my solution..... my 30GB iPod !

 

Awesome, now that I think about it, I think ive seen someone do this before... sounds good!

Thanks everyone

 

No need for a router. You could use a simple network cross-over cable. This may take a little fiddling in the network properties such as temporarily setting the IP addresses to similar values.

However, I would use the DVD route. That way you have also created a complete set of backups of your files at the time of swapping the computers.

John

 

any network will work, if you have a friend that will just let you hang out for abit at his house you can use his network, setup file sharing and just transfer the files over.

DVD's is a good DIY approach and wont cost too much.

The Vista transfer cable I dunno whats up with those and I feel bad for anybody willing to spend 30$ on them, you can get a router cheaper than that, and I suppose you can just use any RJ45 cable and do a computer to computer transfer but you have to tweak some settings in the networking to get it to work and I have personally never done that.

 

Go get a $5 crossover cable, problem solved.

 

Check out this program - Peazip

 

I agree the crossover cable is the best way to go. Get a really short one and that only costs a few bucks. A switch would work if one computer is set up as the DHCP server.. too much work to be honest. How about using USB cables to hook up the 2 computers.. i wonder if that would work...

 

USB cables for data transfer exist, and may do better than ethernet solutions. If you have a 1Gbps connection on both PCs, use ethernet. Otherwise USB 2.0 provides a 480Mbps connection (about half a GigE).

 

Have you set the workgroup name in both computers? IIRC they have to have the same workgroup name to see each other.

 

Yes I have. Anyway, I transferred the files via the iPod yesterday, no problems at all!