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[Drakken]

Simple question - What's the easiest way to transfer everything from a laptop to a desktop?

 

[Tarazet]

Burn it to a CD-R or DVD-R.

 

[Great King Bowser]

Could try FTPing over? I doubt it'd be very fast, but easier than sitting there burning DVDs all day.

 

[Drakken]

Well, I don't think there's a lot of stuff on the laptop (it's my friend's, so I'm not sure), so I guess burning it to CDs would indeed be the easiest. I just wasn't sure if there was a way to kind of like....."backup" everything on the hard drive and load it onto the laptop, as opposed to just selecting a bunch of stuff, burning it to a cd, repeating, etc.

 

[Vlad]

Well, if you've got the equipment for it, you could always network the computers together and just dump everything at once.

 

[Drakken]

You mean just hook them up, set up a network, and move all the files from one to the other?

 

[Shogmaster]

Buy a crossover ethernet patch cable, then network the two directly. ASS TO ASS.

 

[LaneMeyer]

ASS TO ASS.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Yeah, the crossover cable suggestion would work great if you don't already have a network of some kind. If they are both on a network, that's the best way to go.

 

[tedtropy]

Female network port to female network port.

 

[Shogmaster]

Yeah, the crossover cable suggestion would work great if you don't already have a network of some kind. If they are both on a network, that's the best way to go.

What you say is absolutely true, but I got to incorporate the phrase "ASS TO ASS" in a post so I win.