[Shop-talk] moving computer files

[Neil Sherry]

Depends how much stuff. These days, USB sticks are cheap and big. Or you could get an external drive and use it for backup. Or go on ebay and get a caddy to put the old hard drive in, and again use it to transfer files and in future for keeping backups. Make sure it’s USB 3 though.

 

From: Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of john niolon
Sent: 27 May 2020 13:56
To: shop-talk <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Shop-talk] moving computer files

 

shop content... I use my computer to buy tools.

 

had a few power surges / losses the other night and my desktop motherboard died in the process.  I’m looking at a refurbished dell unit with a solid state drive as a replacement.  I haven’t had to copy a full hard drive since you used a parallel cable and some software who’s name escapes me.   What’s the best way to do this from a HDD to a SSD nowadays ??

lt’s a small format machine and I don’t know if I can put my old hard drive in it to slave it for the copying.

 

Its also a windows 10 machine and my old machine was windows 7...  will win10 run all the software my 7 machine did ??  I’m getting so computer illiterate !!!

 

john

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