OT: computer files transfer

[Warren Togami]

One method that works well is copying directly from one hard drive to
another using Windows on a desktop machine.  You can buy a laptop to desktop
IDE cable from Byteware for about $15.

Make sure you have enough space on a blank FAT32 partition or drive on the
desktop machine and plug in the laptop hard drive as a slave or another IDE
channel.  When you boot, the new hard drive should show up as a new drive
letter.

At a DOS Prompt, use this command.
sys E: D:
Substitute E for your laptop drive, and D for your blank partition.

Use Windows Explorer (NOT DOS prompt!) to copy the entire drive.  This
should copy all file attributes (hidden, system, read-only, archive) too.
Repeat the process to copy everything to the new laptop hard drive.

Now Windows _should_ boot, but the drivers will be all messed up.  It will
ask for a bunch of disks or drivers which you may not have.  Your best bet
is to go to the manufacturer's web sites and see if they have driver
downloads for that operating system.  If you can't find any, probably will
have to go back to the original Windows.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Green" <aloha_moon at yahoo.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: [luau] OT: computer files transfer


> This is off-topic, but you all are the best groups of
> tech-heads I have access to for help with these types
> of problems, so bear with me  =-)
>
>
> I have a friend who wants to get a new notebook
> computer, and she needs to transfer her data to the
> new machine when it comes. The e-mail and other
> documetns are a simple copy, but she also has a
> Japanese windows install on a separate partition, as
> well as several programs that she may not have the
> original install diskettes for.
>
> Has anybody had any experience with trying to move
> apps over like this, or could you point me to a
> resource online?
>
> Much Mahalo,
>
> Rob
>
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