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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: ddropkin on June 22, 2004, 10:11:37 PM

Title: transfering info from desktop to laptop
Post by: ddropkin on June 22, 2004, 10:11:37 PM

I have a new dell laptop and want to easily trasfer the information from my desktop to the laptop. how do I do that?  

Title: Re: transfering info from desktop to laptop
Post by: chade on June 22, 2004, 10:51:39 PM

The easiest way is to have the two hooked up onto their own network, either via a network cable + hub/switch or a crossover network cable (crossover cables have some wires inside reversed as opposed to a normal network cable).

Do both computers have Ethernet ports (like a telephone line port for a modem, only slightly larger)?  What operating system are you running (computers need to be configured to talk to each other once physically hooked up)?

Title: Re: transfering info from desktop to laptop
Post by: merlin on June 24, 2004, 04:54:35 PM

data link cable .. and if this is winxp transfer file wizard...