Reply to: Moving data from old to new PC ?

[WTFH]

Quick question: after 29th July does Win 10 stop being free?

qh

Yes.

[missinggreenfields]

Quick question: after 29th July does Win 10 stop being free?

In theory, yes. MS haven't said anything about it, but thye are likely (according to the internet) to extend the deadline because they want everyone off 7 and onto 10 quickly.

[quackhandle]

Looking at doing this myself, just purchased a T450s and once it arrives I will install Win10. Will leave the old T420s on Win7 as a failsafe.

I have a number of external backup drives so will move stuff to that then work out what I need on the new machine.

Quick question: after 29th July does Win 10 stop being free?

qh

[ChimpMaster]

Surely restore from backup... which you obviously have since you learnt a lesson years ago when your data disk died and you lost 400Gb of porn.

Or was that just me?

[aoxomoxoa]

You need to be careful to keep the same user names otherwise you'll run into all sorts of permission issues, especially with i-tunes. I know this from recent experience.

[missinggreenfields]

Use this as an opportunity to spring clean the system, reinstall everything from scratch, but only those applications that you actually use

+1

Currently finishing my new laptop installation - it's amazing how little stuff I need to copy across, despite the current one being "full".

Dropbox, four or five programs, Office, vmware, virtual machines - simple. Stick the rest on the NAS just in case there's some files I need somewhere, and be gone with it all!

[VectraMan]

Or you can just put the old hard disc into a USB external disc enclosure. Much simpler.

I'd like to change my answer to that.

[SimonMac]

Use this as an opportunity to spring clean the system, reinstall everything from scratch, but only those applications that you actually use

[minestrone]

I would upgrade the old PC to win 10 then clone the disk.

[xoggoth]

Or you can just put the old hard disc into a USB external disc enclosure. Much simpler.

[VectraMan]

Put the old HDD inside the new PC. Will be faster that way.

[xoggoth]

I agree with Platypus. Lots more sophisticated/techie methods but by the time you have sorted out the potential problems (check Google for slow speed transfer issues with Home groups and sharing with Win 7) the crude approach is much simpler. Some less obvious things like IE favourites, Windows start menus etc are easy to copy as well, a quick Google tells you location.

[Platypus]

Cut 'n' paste old to new. Bu cutting it's easier to see what's left and still needs to be moved. Windows explorer is sufficient for this.

[kaiser78]

Copy data to external disc and restore onto new machine ?

[northernladuk]

Use the synology application and remap the folders you have set autoback up to and it will reinstall automatically on to the new PC.