Thread: data transfer from computer to computer

Do you have Firewire on both, you can then network them?

The simplest is a descent sized memory stick or USB hard drive though.

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Do you have Firewire on both, you can then network them?

The simplest is a descent sized memory stick or USB hard drive though.

I'm not sure to be honest.

I probably can just save it all to an external HDD and then transfer that way, it just seemed like double handling.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

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I probably can just save it all to an external HDD and then transfer that way, it just seemed like double handling.

That is how I would do it if both computers are working. There will be more direct methods, but almost certainly these will involve a lot more messing about!

John

if they are on the same OS and both have a network port you can do one of 2 things

1. setup a mini network from behind the modem using the modem as a hub (assuming it supports it, mine does)
2. grab an ethernet crossover cable and setup an adhoc network then just share the files across.

Thanks for this fellows. I'll give that a go Dave and see what happens otherwise just copy it to the EHDD and then again onto the Laptop.

i think vista has a build it programe for doing that sort of thing

Originally Posted by richard4u2

i think vista has a build it programe for doing that sort of thing

Hopefully! The pc is vista, but the laptop is XP

The External HDD will definitely be the easiest.

Vista and XP both have the ability to network by firewire or cross over ethernet PC to PC. The modem sounds like its a 4 port router or switch so you could use it too and that would be easier than a single cable to set up. But if it was me I'd be going the HDD for 30GB of data.