HOW DO i MOVE ALL INFO FROM MY PRESENT MACHINE TO A BRAND NEW MACHINE

[Phil Balzano]

Hello,GETTING A NEW MACHINE AND WANT MOVE EVERYTHING FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW MACHINE

 

[Motopsychojdn]

The simplest method is to get your old hard drive out of the old machine, then once your new one arrives/ is built, put the old one in as a secondary drive, remember to ensure in bios that you can only boot from the new systems drive,
then boot into windows and copy across to the new drive,
if you get problems with permissions, put the new drive in the old machine as secondary, boot into the original windows then transfer that way
or if you have both machines there, simply use an external/spare hard drive to copy from and to
Moto

 

[billybobser]

WITH LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS.


As an additional to the prev post, you should be able to make a ghost image of the drive and copy it across.

(to give you an idea of the operation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_cloning)

and a list of software to do it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_cloning_software

this will be much better than copying and pasting, since alot of files will be in use and throw an error, and especially if you want to clone your operating system.

 

[Chirag Borawake]

Also you can connect both the computers in LAN, and copy side by side..!! It'll be better, because you'll be able to control both the HDD's with their respective computers.
But the transfer might be slower..!!
But still 1TB of data can be transferred over a night.