I want to transfer things from a laptop to PC?

Question

whats the best and least expensive way of transfering all of my things from my laptop to PC?

Answer 1

Small external hard drive.

Answer 2

The cheapest way is to get an Ethernet crossover cable and network the computers together - but the difficulty inherent in that procedure would make it not worth the effort especially for someone who doesn't already know how to do it.



USB flash drives are dirt-cheap nowadays, so depending on the price you can find, this might even be a cheaper option than the crossover cable. There's also a special USB device you can get that plugs into both computers and allows you to directly transfer files, which would be useful if you have a large number of files, or files larger than 2GB in size which can't be stored on a USB flash drive (such as raw video) due to the restrictions of the FAT32 file system used on flash drives.

Answer 3

Couple of options you can either buy a 'firewire cable' (about £6) & connect one computer to the other & transfer everything that way - one computer acts like an external hard drive.(this definitely works with a Macbook or similar)



Buy a 2.5 inch external 'hard drive caddy' (about £10 or less) from ebay then carefully remove your laptop hard drive (usually a removable panel under the laptop) then put the laptop hard drive inside the caddy & then connect the caddy with a usb lead to your pc, the laptop hard drive will show on your pc as an extra drive.



Alternatively you could buy a 'big external hard drive like 1TB' (about £45 - £80) & put everything on there & move it across.



Lastly burn everything thing to 're-writable DVD discs' (about £5 - £10 for a pack of 10) & transfer that way.



I think Ive covered every method there is.

Answer 4

It concerns what working gadget the two desktops are employing! in case you have the two desktops working WinXP or Vista, the quickest, maximum inexpensive technique may well be to apply a flash tension. once you're saying you have no longer have been given a usb, do you advise you have no longer have been given a USB port on between the desktops? Or do you advise you have no longer have been given a USB flash tension? in case you have no longer have been given a flash tension, you may get a small for below $10 - even a extremely large one for $20. A 4 gb flash tension holds relating to an identical amt of archives as a DVD yet is a lot swifter and may well be used many times lower back. HTH!

Answer 5

If you have a wireless router the easiest thing to do is send it by a LAN connection.



If you don't have experience in doing that, well probably the best thing for you to do is get a 2 GB Jump Drive for about $7.

Answer 6

If you have a home network you can just drag and drop your files from one pc to the other. You will have to set up sharing of folder on each of them first of course. If you do not have a home network then you could get a usb bridge cable and connect them together and copy files that way. Programs will have to be reinstalled to work properly on the new computer.



See below for a link to home networking and sharing;



http://www.ehow.com/how_5073394_create-shared-folder.html



http://www.ehow.com/how_5060125_configure-sharing-windows-xp-computer.html



http://www.ehow.com/how_5060624_configure-sharing-windows-vista-computer.html



A usb bridge cable can be found at the link below;



http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4616255&CatId=445

Answer 7

If you are not copying programs, only data, then get an 8GB or 16GB flash drive and copy your data to the flash drive and then plug it into the PC and copy it to whatever file folder you want the data to reside.



I hope this helps.

Answer 8

USB flash drives or remote desktop.

Answer 9

USE A USB OR A HARD DRIVE