Is there any help out there for Win7 among the Freepers? Wanted to file transfer from the old WIN 7 machine to the new WIN7 machine and the new computer wont recognize the old computer and vice versa. Both computers I think have the same name, could that be a problem.
The old computer has a home group and the new computer keeps trying to make its own home group, the hussy!
The last legs are rapidly approaching for old computer
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Please help?
Could be they are too closely related for relations. Might result in compromised children.
Can’t help you too much, although I suspect a $10 cable might help and might speed data transfer time as well. Wireless has its uses, but sometimes wires are your friend.
FLASHDRIVE.
Cheap and easy.
When I did this with my new MacBookPro about three months ago, I did it through a FireWire and there was an assistant that walked me through the steps of which there were only a couple. I bet you Windows 7 has something exactly like that. I agree with the other poster. I think wired would be faster.
I bought it, but it is not cooperating.
Bad computer!
Google Windows Easy Transfer
Ok, this should be easy enough.
Yes, first give the computers different names. It might not matter, but it doesn’t hurt to rule that out as a conflict.
So, go right-click Computer on the Start Menu, hit Properties, then click Advanced System Settings on the left side menu of the window that comes up. Go to the Computer Name tab and hit the Change button. Change the name of one of the machines to something different, and then give it some workgroup name. Go to the other machine, do the same thing, but without changing the name, and just make sure it has the same workgroup name.
Now, theoretically, if both of your computers are connected to the same default gateway, they should be able to see each other under Computer > Network. If they still don’t detect each other, make sure they are both using the same default gateway (just in case you have some stray wireless router handing out IP addresses or something). You can check that by using Start > Run > cmd, then typing “ipconfig” in the window that comes up and hitting enter.
Assuming they are using the same default gateway, the other likely culprit is Windows Firewall. Go to Start > Control Panel > Windows Firewall and turn it completely off. You can turn it on again later after you are done transferring, but in my experience, the thing is only good for interfering with your own legitimate network traffic, and never seems to do much to stop real threats.
Assuming at this point you get the computers to see each other, you will also have to turn on file sharing for the folders on the computer you want to copy files from. Right click the folder in Computer or Windows Explorer and click Share With > Advanced Sharing, then click the Advanced Sharing button. Click the “Share This Folder” box, then click the permissions button and check to allow full control for the everybody group. Then, click ok twice to apply the settings.
One should be named something different. Workgroup name should be the same. Share the hard drives on both PC’s.
in Explorer, find your computer and look for (C;), right click on it and this will bring up “properties”.
Look for the tab that says “Sharing”, click on advanced toward the bottom.
on the top right hand side you will see “Share this Folder” and checkbox.
Check it, hit “Apply”, then hit “Apply” on the Properties and hit “Close”.
Repeat this on both computers.
Then go into Network and look for computers near you.
You can figure out the rest...
This requires networking, security and would be a royal pain in the ass. A cheap usb solution is called for.
bflr
Share a drive on one computer and map to it from the other.
If you check your network properties you’ll see a local LAN address, e.g. 192.168.1.something
So if you share the C: drive, you can give it a name, then you can then map that drive from the other with the path \\192.168.1.something\sharename
Go to web site http://www.ehow.com/about_5082149_network-patch-cable.html and look for cross over cable info and how to use it. Stables has a Tripp Lite N210-010-GY 10’ RJ45M/M Cat6 Gigabit Cross Over Molded Patch Cable, Gray cable. To connect two pc’s together.
No offense to anyone here, but if you got that transferring wirelessly with that much ease, you are vulnerable. Likewise, if you got that working off this thread you're smart enough to have some basic networking under your belt and do it smartly.
Buy the book (and a crossover cable).
Thanks to Chickensoup for getting such a good thread going!
Before you do any file transfer, you should Defrag the old computer.
Most of your problems are probably being caused by fragmentation, and if you do not defrag, you will be transferring problems to the new machine.
You may find out that you didn’t need a new machine.
Defraging should be done at night while you are sleeping.
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I keep an external hard drive by my computer and periodically update the data I want to save so I can just transfer it if I need a new computer. That way, if the current one catastrophically crashes, I only lose anything not transferred from the last session.