"John Braham" <john_braham********.com>
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> On 14 May, 11:06, "Jack" <j...@knight.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> Hi,
>> I have an old PC that was installed with XP and a new PC for Vista...
>> I want to transfer all the stuff from the old PC to the new one,
>> If I just use cut-n-paste, some data would be missed out,
>> so I tried somethin' like this but unfortunately to no avail,
>> xcopy /c /e 192.168.1.200://C:\*.* .
>> where the address is for my old PC
>> and . is the current directory on my Vista PC..
>> Any hints
>> Thanks[/color]
>
> To be honest, I wouln't suggest copying the whole disk over, but if
> you do wish to do this, I can't see any reason why not to copy and
> paste from the File Explorer GUI, if (for some reason) you do want to
> take absolutly every file.[/color]
I see what you mean. I use xcopy because I wanna to take a "hard" copy from
my old PC.
I was having 10.7GB of data on this PC when copied over, there was only
around 1.7GB
So that I gave it a hard one.[color=blue]
>
> Top hint though, the user folders, i.e. the 'My Documents', 'My
> Pictures' etc for each of your user accounts may be security protected
> so you may find that once you copy them over to vista, you have to re-
> take ownership of the folders and give yourself permissions to them,
> it may be much simpler just to dive into these individually and pull
> the data out.[/color]
Couldn't be done by admin. on both ends? I was using "administrator" as the
a/c name on both sides
I could let go the folders such as "Program files" and "Windows", I would
find it painful if I pick the files one by one out of my old PC!!! I simply
have piles of stuff to copy...
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>
> Hope this helps,
> John
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