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To: TurboZamboni

Sure you can do ez tranfer from vista to 8..see link

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-easy-transfer


63 posted on 07/14/2014 4:50:13 PM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: tophat9000

Cool.

is there a specific cable I need to buy?

I have a never used Passport external drive, but I think it may need to be formatted for my old computer(not sure on how to do that)


65 posted on 07/14/2014 6:52:06 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: tophat9000

ok- tried that.

when I got to the part to transfer from my portable HD on to the new computer, it gave me an error message:
“your files can’t be transferred. windows easy transfer can’t transfer the files from windows vista or windows xp”


66 posted on 07/15/2014 7:36:42 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: tophat9000

...but apparently NOT 8.1.

it seems Windows 8 was the last version in which you could transfer from XP or Vista using Windows Easy Transfer. Microsoft is trying to force people into using their cloud service, Sky Drive.


72 posted on 08/10/2014 1:39:01 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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