[Shop-talk] moving computer files

[Pat Horne]

John,

I went through the exact same thing myself. It’s been several months & things are not complete yet. 

“They” say that all you need to do is transfer the files. It didn’t work for me. Plenty of user security problems that I haven’t gotten past. All software needed to be reinstalled. 

If there isn’t a place to connect your old drive inside you can use an external usb enclosure. They are cheap. 

If I had known the trouble I had, I would have taken it to a pro. 

I set my machine up to dual boot 7 & 10 so I could work while moving things over. 

I hadn’t  used 10 before, & I had a significant learning curve. 

Good luck. 

Peace,
Pat

Pat Horne 
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On May 27, 2020, at 7:57 AM, john niolon <jniolon at att.net> wrote:


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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