File sharing with ethernet cable trouble

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Hello,

I recently got a new pc and I am trying to transfer my old data, about 380GB which is sitting on my old PC, to my new PC. The first problem is that I can't connect the old hard drive to my new PC and the second problem is that my download and upload speed are very slow. So I came up with a solution: transfer the data using a local network. I simply connected my 2 PCs with a single ethernet cable and figured that would work.

So now I have both of my computers connected through an ethernet cable, both computers detect an unidentified network, but I don't know how to transfer files now. I tried setting up a homegroup but it needs me to set my network location to private which it is not letting me.

Could anyone please send me in the right direction, I'm stuck right now.
Thanks in advance.
 
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More often then not you cant just plug 2 computers together with a single ethernet cable and it just work.
Not to mention your data is not just shared by default, this would be very very insecure.

Ideally you need to connect each computer to a router so that way the router can provide an IP address.
Otherwise you will need to set a static IP on each computer.
I frankly suggest using traditional network shares instead of homegroup, it is much more reliable/consistent.

setup share on host computer: http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-share-folders-without-homegroups-in-windows-7-3434911/

Then on the machine hosting the files, open a command prompt and type ipconfig, and write down the address under IPV4.
Now on the computer...
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More often then not you cant just plug 2 computers together with a single ethernet cable and it just work.
Not to mention your data is not just shared by default, this would be very very insecure.

Ideally you need to connect each computer to a router so that way the router can provide an IP address.
Otherwise you will need to set a static IP on each computer.
I frankly suggest using traditional network shares instead of homegroup, it is much more reliable/consistent.

setup share on host computer: http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-share-folders-without-homegroups-in-windows-7-3434911/

Then on the machine hosting the files, open a command prompt and type ipconfig, and write down the address under IPV4.
Now on the computer you want to copy to, open a file explorer window and type //IP.ADDRESS.FROM.STEP.ABOVE/NAME.OF.SHARE
 
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Prior to Cat5e you would have had to use a crossover cable, which is no longer practical, as 4 pair are used for Cat5e. With today's technology, it is common for PCs to be able to connect with a straight through Ethernet cable, and without a router or switch in between. At least, that is my experience.

By far the easiest method is just to plug in an external USB drive and copy the data that way. But if such is not available, then Homegroup should work when both PCs are discoverable and on the same workgroup.

Perhaps the OP has found a solution, as we haven't heard anything since the original post?
 
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first of all You need to use the cross cabling instead of straight cable like tanyac said.. and then if then turn on the network discovery you may need to turn the firewall off and assign to static ip if any exclamation mark is showing on the monitor ..
 
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Man. We are not living in the early 2000's.

I don't own a cross over cable (because they are too slow for large amounts of data), so if it can't be done with a normal cable, then I guess it must be magic, because I've done it dozens of times at customer sites.

Credit... Jonathon Johnson, Quora...

If you have a reasonably modern computer with an RJ-45 Ethernet interface (RJ-45 is the connector style), you do not need a crossover cable.

Oh, a crossover cable would still work, but not optimally: crossover cables are not usable with Gigabit Ethernet. That’s because Gigabit Ethernet uses all four pairs, and a crossover cable swaps only the two pairs used by 100 Mbit and 10 Mbit Ethernet. Oh, some interfaces may be agile enough to deal with a crossover cable and support Gigabit, but I wouldn’t count on it. Besides, the Gigabit (1000Base-T) standard specifies that Gigabit devices must support auto MDI/MDIX (meaning, the port automatically switches to crossover mode as needed), so a straight cable will work just fine.

So you don’t need a crossover cable. Besides, if you don’t have one already, you’d have to make it yourself since you’ll have a hard time finding one in your local tech superstore. You can probably find one online, but you’d have to wait until at least tomorrow for it to arrive (and you want to hook up your computers now.

So just use an ordinary CAT5e or CAT6 cable, and you’ll have the benefit of Gigabit speeds between your computers.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-network-two-Windows-computers-together-by-ethernet-cable-without-using-a-switch-or-router

If that doesn’t work, then there may be network discovery, sharing, or firewall issues on one or both computers.

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