Re: how to move data from windows ME to XP
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:57:01 -0700
Donna wrote:
Thanks for your tips...
You're welcome. Glad to help.
To backup to an external hard drive, I'll need to first buy an
external hard drive.... and then how do I the backup to it. Is it a
cut/paste type thing?
That depends on you and what you want to back up. The simplest method is, as
you suggest, copy and paste, and that may meet your needs. There is lots of
third-party backup software available, and you may want to explore the extra
capability of what that can do for you. But at a a minimum, just copy and
paste can provide you a lot of significant protection.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Donna wrote:
Hi... I was wondering how I can move my word documents, music files,
etc from Windows ME to XP.
I'm thinking of buying a new "tower" with XP installed on it
My system is pretty old now and I want to move it before it dies and
I lose it all.
Several points:
1. Your system dying is not cause for concern. The hard drive dying
might be. If the system dies and the hard drive is still good,
everything on it should still be recoverable.
2. Hard drives can die at any time, regardless of their age.
Moreover at any time you can lose everything on your drive to many
other possible dangers: user error, severe power glitches, nearby
lightning strike, virus attack, even theft of the computer.
3. Your question suggests that you do not have a policy of regularly
backing your up word documents, music files, etc. to external media.
Considering that you are *always* vulnerable to the potential loss
of everything to one of the dangers above, consider yourself lucky
if you haven't lost everything already. As has often been said, it's
not a matter of whether you will have such a problem, but when.
If I were in your shoes, I would consider that instituting an
appropriate backup scheme should be my highest priority--much more
important than buying a new computer or moving to Windows XP.
5. If you do move to a new computer and Windows XP, even with new
hardware all those vulnerabilities remain. Any backup scheme you
institute now (and backup hardware and software that you purchase)
should still be usuble under Windows XP.
6. It is now ten days until the consumer release of the next
generation of Windows--Windows Vista. If you buy a new computer with
Windows XP installed today, in ten days you will be running an older
operating system, one on its way out. To me that makes no sense. If
you do buy a new computer, get one with the latest version of
Windows, Windows Vista.
7. Finally, if you do get a new computer, regardless of what
operating system is on it, you have several choices of how to move
your data over. Which is best for you greatly depends on how much
data you have to transfer. Here are some choices:
a. Transfer them on diskettes.
b. Transfer them on CDRs.
c. E-mail them from the old machine and read the E-mail on the new
one.
d. Network the two computers, and just copy the files over the
network.
e. Temporarily (or even permanently) install the old computer's hard
drive in the new computer and just copy them over.
f. Use a USB thumb drive
g. Back them up to an external hard drive, and restore them from
there on the new computer.
I like choice g the best, since that gets you started on a
much-needed backup scheme.
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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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