Tech Ping: Bought the Computer, Trying to Do Wireless File Transfer HELP!!

04.14.15 | chickensoup

[Chickensoup]

Tech Ping: Bought the Computer, Trying to Do Wireless File Transfer HELP!!

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

Last conversation was this: Question about Laptop Purchase Win8.1 with 1TB SATA vs Beloved Win7 No SATA??

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3277138/posts

[logi_cal869]

Based on what was presented in this thread, I disagree.

But I gave up preaching security long ago.

Gday!

[dayglored]

Late to the party, but some great advice and ideas on this thread, so ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to Chickensoup for getting such a good thread going!

[Still Thinking]

Look in the old machine in Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Homegroup -> View and print your homegroup password. Write down the password and enter it in the same place in the new machine.

[editor-surveyor]

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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[dennisw]

SEAGATE ETERNAL 1 TERRABYTE-—— $45 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840

This is good for file transfer to new computer

[MHGinTN]

How do you transfer every bit of data on an old drive to something like this 1TB drive ro replace the old drive in your desktop??

[dennisw]

Lets pretend everything you want to keep has been filed away in Documents. You drag and drop the Documents folder icon into the open folder representing the new external hard drive

http://www.wikihow.com/Copy-Files-to-an-External-Hard-Drive

http://techchannel.radioshack.com/transfer-files-internal-hard-drive-external-hard-drive-1453.html

[Kirkwood]

You need to read the post from a few days ago. The old laptop had a defective keyboard and battery.

[Kirkwood]

If the original network was not secure, doing a wireless transfer between 2 computers on the network would not be any less secure. Most users who already use a home network setup are aware of having it password protected. The wireless router probably also has a separate firewall since they all come that way in the last several years.

[MHGinTN]

I had an old Toshiba 80GB laptop. One night it made it down the steps before I did. The shattered case would shock me if I tried to use it, so I took the drive out and now use it as a storage drive via USB port.

[editor-surveyor]

Just about every old lapper has a bad battery or battery plug.

(and most of my machines have tired keyboards)

[Kirkwood]

And they aren’t worth the hundreds of dollars it would cost to fix them, assuming you could even get the parts since Sony no longer makes or provides replacement parts.

[LouieFisk]

Chickensoup, if you don't mind taking the drive from the old
PC out, I'd recommend this:

StarTech.com USB to SATA IDE Hard Drive Docking Station

2.5/3.5in HDD Dock Storage controller- 300 MBps

http://www.google.com/shopping/product/17217768208462544754?hl=en

You just pop in your old drive pretty much like bread goes
into a toaster. Your new PC will read the old HD just
fine. Then you move files to your new PC.

Pretty handy to have, especially if you have some HDs
in some other PCs and want to glean files from them.

Hope that may be of some assistance!

[trebb]

Have you renamed one of them? If they have the same name and are part of the same network, there will be a conflict.

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.

[Chickensoup]

I have an external drive, it is at the office. I did rename and that seemed to be the significant part of the problem. Rebooted both worked.

Thanks you

[Chickensoup]

Thank you, the move did work overnight I am surprised and cheered. Freepers are wonderful.

[Boogieman]

That depends on how you copied them. If you used the copy/paste functions, they will still be on the old machine. If you used the cut/paste or move functions, they will not be on the old machine.

[Chickensoup]

I didn’t see any options, fortunately, all the files are on both machines.

I have a backerupper at the office.

Confession, been a month since last backup.

I know you will find that hard to believe.

[Chickensoup]

The wireless file transfer of 89.7GB took, best guess, 6 to 7 hours.

It was two hours in when I went to bed, it was about a third done, and remaining time had stretched from three to four and a half hours. At 730 when I came downstairs it was done and the Vaio was turned off and cool to touch.

Thank you for your help and support

As a gift I leave you my most embarrassing tech thread:

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2139000/posts

[johniegrad]

Thanks.