Help - Transfering computer files

[Philbes]

Gave my father-in-law a new computer for Xmas to replace the one I built for him more than 8 years ago. Old computer has no USB or networking. So I removed hard disk from old PC and connected it to internal IDE connection on motherboard of new PC. Booted new PC and it automatcally saw the old hard disk as drive D:. Then used Windows Explorer and drag & drop to transfer files to C: (hard disk of new computer). Complete operation took less than 20 minutes.

[disco1]

andyparrott said:

john_r said:

£60 - well worth it for data transfer and is then useful for backing up everything too.

www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=48607&doy=28m12&criteria=SALE

I bought a 320Gb Maxtor drive at PC World yesterday for just under £70

quite amazing the price of a gig nowadays. quite amazing they can build something with 320 of 'em

[meeja]

My dad is replacing his ageing PC in January with a shiny new Dell jobbie.... I've got to copy across all of his bits and pieces from one to the other (God bless my work-issued 2gB USB stick!)

Before I start trawling web forums etc, I need to get at his emails (Outlook Express) and import them into the new machine (Full Outlook)

Where do I need to probe on the old machine, and where do I need to paste into the new machine?

[malman]

tools -> options -> maintenance -> store folder in outlook express will show you the folder its currently using should look something like

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{E3393C71-C65D-49E0-993B-DA2AD269FABD}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

copy the folder and its content to new pc open outlook on new machine and go file -> import choose outlook express and then point to the store folder you just copied, bit of munching by outlook and tada your email has arrived

[meeja]