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Old 27th Dec 2010, 13:55
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Originally Posted by Saab Dastard
Serial cable is stone age stuff.

Best to connect the PCs directly together with a physical network cable (might need to use a cross-over), or connected to the same router (wired or wireless), or remove the hard disk from the old PC and connect it as a second hard disk to the new PC (internally or externally).

Lots of helpful guides available on migrating user data from one system to another - Windows ships with a Wizard to do (some of) it, but you have to run it once for each account you want to migrate.

You basically want to copy settings and data from CDocuments and Settings\username to the same location (or a backup location) on the new PC.

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Yes, thanks, it is XP home to XP home, should help? I fancy the 'remove H/D' method, I can cannibalise connection from old machine?
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