Does anyone know how I can transfer my files from my desktop computer to my laptop without having to take the long way around by making a million CDs? My desktop seems to be on its last leg with all the error messages and since it won't let me download any upgrades without the oriignal disc, which I cannot find, it has not been been updated in a while. So, I want to move everything over to my laptop.
View 11 RepliesI am after help in that i would like to take hard drive, volume 27g from one laptop win xp pro, and place on another laptop 80g win xp home.I do have memory flash but only 256mb.I also think i will need to look at partioning drives do hope i get a reply/plural great support
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2 hard drives, both sata, 120 GB Seagate and 250 GB Maxtor
hooked up to a Asus P4P800SE board with p4 2.53 ghz cpu and 1024 mb of DDR333 ram Windows XP Pro SP2
now.... on a fresh windows install when i copy a file from one drive to the other it goes fast (700 meg file in under 30 seconds)... then I install all my basic software (office, winamp, visual studio, nod32, device drivers for manufacturers website) and following that eventually my performance drops through the floor... it takes like 7 minutes to copy the above mentioned 700 meg file and while at it the CPU usage is high. Process explorer (sysinternals) says that most of that cpu power is taken up by hardware interrupts and I cant do much else when its copying. If i boot with WinPE those files transfer good again... 30 seconds for 700 megs.
SO this is a software problem and what i've done already is
1. disabled my startups
2. double checked that my drives are DMA enabled
3. switched back to standard IDE drivers for the controller (made no difference so i reinstalled the Intel chipset drivers again)
4. defragged the drive
and i'm out of ideas on what else I could try... if anyone has any ideas i'd be greatful. there is no viri/spyware on this machine. its been scanned left right and center
I am currently running Fat32 and as noted in a previous post I am building a new computer. I have copied some files on to cds. What I would like to know (if someone has done this) is that can these files be transfered to the new build as I plan on going NTFS. Will they convert from fat32 to NTFS when copied from the disc or even work at all? Or just out of luck and have to start all over?
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I am trying to put music on my mothers MP3 player, which i have done before multipul times, but now everytime i try to move a file from my music file to her MP3 file, it says "Cannot create or replace file: The disk is write protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk." i dont know how to remove the write protection. i tried to move other files to the MP3, but all files give me the same message, even the ones that are already in the MP3 folder
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View 10 Replies View Relatedother day my desktop came down with something. windows has slowed to a crawl.. if i click on the start menu, 2 minutes later it will pop up. if i click on a program (firefox, for example) it will never open and the whole comp will just sit there frozen forever.. if i leave it for a few hours like that, firefox will have finally opened.. once in firefox.. it seems i can move about a bit quicker.. but its still unbearably slow. in (advanced) processes menu everything is fine, and the cpu level seems to be where it should be, nothing using up all the cpu that i can see.. after a restart (by holdiong the power button down), i can move around normally for about 1-2 minutes then it basically freezes up again. next i went on my laptop to look up names of processes (to see what they do) and 10 minutes later, the laptop is doing the SAME THING.also, my friends computer seems to be doing the same thing. I was sending some emails with attachemtns to him recently. (eMail worm?)
i can only get them to function in safe mode, and the weird thing is.. bit-defender says its clean of viruses, and ive used search&destroy, spysweeper, ad-aware, and nod32 to clean out most stuff.. but nothing seems to help. also, it seems that S&D will find a bunch of stuff and clear it out fine, and if I run the check again immediately after it finds the same bad stuff again. this is only in regular mode, in safe mode it finds nothing.
When I try to access my desktop from my laptop and desktop to laptop, I keep getting a message that says that I do not have access permissions to network resources. I set up my network, enabled file/printer sharing, and configured firewalls to allow the network. My network has been working fine for about a year now until just recently. (I didn't install anything new, and I keep both computers updated everyday.)
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