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I'm having difficulty transferring a 100gb folder to my Win10 machine from an XP laptop. I am using the correct crossover cable but accessing the older machine is proving elusive. What is the easiest way to get this over with?
 
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or you could physically remove the hdd and put it into the windows 10 machine and it should show up , if the windows 10 machine has only a 10/100 network card the transfer will be quicker by putting it into your new/other pc
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External drive would be the easiest choice, as reedo_43 said.

Barring that, you need to get both computers to see each other.
Doing that could work as long as you do following:
manually set IP's for both computers to same subnet.
As example:
192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2
subnet 255.255.255.0

After that, you would most likely need to share the drive on XP laptop or.. if you happen to have same username on both... you might not need to.
open windows explorer (windows+E), since network browser can be wonky.
You can set folders/drives to be shared with right clicking on them and selecting sharing option, where you just need to provide a name under which you share it.

type following in the address bar, assuming that the XP machine was set to be 192.168.0.2:
192.168.0.2\sharename
If you use same username on both and never disabled default shares, you could do:
192.168.0.2\C$ (where letter is drive letter to access whole drive, kind of needs that same username on both and you to be administrator too)


And above assumes that you do not have any special firewall rules blocking file sharing.
 
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Hmm I didn't choose a best solution yet it did on its own? The xp machine is showing it is connected. All ip configs are the same as you showed and I disabled firewall on both machines. I shared both the folder and the entire drive yet it times out when trying to connect to 192.168.0.2\C$ (C$ is the name too). I don't have an external mount to use nor any extra ports to connect it to or else this would have been easy but I'm also adamant about using the cable since I've never done it this way before.

 
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I bit the bullet and hooked it directly into my tower but now 2 things are driving me crazy. Firstly permission settings are preventing me from taking control and moving the folder. I thought I took control properly but apparently I have some files with encryption enabled. Also because of changing those settings now my wired network profile has changed from public to private and that unidentified network one won't go away I can't find out how to delete it.

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Looks like my day is ruined. The permission settings and encryption on these files are so inconsistent. I tried reconnecting the drive to the old laptop and because I changed the security already now that one can't access it. Why does microsoft make this so complicated!!!
 
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Guys please help I've lost all my data somehow. When I first transferred the files I made the mistake of cutting and pasting it to my computer before getting those first "you don't have permission" errors for a couple files which I hit ignore on every time. Turns out one folder was encrypted through windows folder settings and another large folder was compressed. I put the drive back in the laptop and the first thing I notice is the backup folder said 0 bytes!!! I immediately put it back into the Win10 machine and recopied what I transferred over back to the XP drive. Yet even though only a tenth transferred somehow it was still "there".

Here's where it gets weird. When I check the drive in Win10 it shows the correct amount of data size in the folder but when I put it back into the XP machine it shows a 10th of it. Many files are inaccessible which is why I think it's showing that. Now while typing this I tried to copy it again from xp to win10 and now it's actually doing it the way it was supposed to the first time because when I had it in the laptop I uncompressed any compressed folders and remove the encryption which worked for all but one file. I'm so confused and lost now I've never went through a pc problem like this!

Why didn't all the contents transfer the first time? Why did the file contents vanish after I hit ignore? Where did they go? How were they there but weren't? Something is seriously incompatible between xp and win10.
 
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Ok I figured it out. Basically when I first tried to transfer the files the permissions were not granted so I clicked "ignore and do this for all files" or something which only did half a transfer. The other part of the problem was this 160gb mechanical drive takes really long to show the 100gig folder that was on it. I think I'm back in the driver seat SORRY!

If anyone can recommend a really good take ownership tool I'd appreciate it sincerely.
 
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make sure when you take ownership under security that you replace all the child objects etc. dont try and do the whole drive etc just do the folders you need as sometimes ownership doesnt work oddly enough.

also in windows 10 and 8.1 etc if you are stuck on public when you fix a manual ip search for homegroup and select it and hit change location or something under there and it will make it private, most likely he reason why you couldnt find the folder unless you changed the firewalls public settings.

also make sure you un encrypt that drive first
 
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