Thanks, I'll let you know! He just got a new battery for the old computer
in the hopes that it will last long enough to access the hard drive. We'll
see!
Tina
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Brian Gray <bsg017@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chuck said
> <What Moose said except that he forgot to add that you will need to
> formally "share" the files in question between the 2 computers.
> Otherwise you won't even be able to see them let alone copy them.
>
> With Tom on his old machine: go to Windows Explorer, navigate to the C
> drive (and others if you have them), right click the C drive and offer
> to *share* it for *read only* access. You can also offer write access
> but there's no need for that here. You can also navigate down the list
> of folders and share only specific ones if you choose. I'd normally
> recommend only doing selected ones but Tom wants to copy all of the data
> files which may be just about everywhere.
>
> With Tom on his new machine: Go to Windows Explorer and navigate to the
> network section. There you should see the names of the other computers
> on your local network and perhaps other devices as well such as your
> printers. Click on "Tom's old computer" (whatever it's called) to open
> it up and you should then see the C drive or the folders which were
> offered for sharing. With another instance of Windows explorer showing
> the drive on the new machine you should be able to do drag and drop from
> the old file folders to those on the new machine. If you drag and drop
> the entire folder it should copy the entire thing including the folder
> with its old name.>
>
> I certainly agree in principle with this but my experience seems to be
> that if y
> ou are moving things to Windows 7 or Windows 8 systems this way from
> computers u
> sing earlier versions of Windows, it is not always totally straightforward
> setti
> ng up the network and 'authorising' cross viewing, and/or transfer of
> files. Th
> is seems to be especially true if one or more of the computers has several
> autho
> rised users with passwords. As a result, Microsofts 'improvements' to
> security h
> ave not always been welcomed in my house!
>
> I would be interested to hear how the transfer goes in practice.
> Brian Gray
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