Posted on 04/14/2015 4:57:49 PM PDT by 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
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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...
No, the built in program is called Data Migration Assistant. Once the computers were connected by the FireWire through the FireWire ports, all I had to do was start up the Migration Assistant and I had prompts to follow. I bet your computer has something like this. There were a couple of steps that were needed to get the computers talking to each other but it was pretty easy.
Get the largest capacity you can afford depending on the amount of data you have. You can go into your library and check the size of each folder to add them together.
If the collective data is more than 64 GB then purchase a 500 GB external hard drive for around 70 bucks to move your data to because this is more cost effective.
Brand, type, etc. is not relevant only size.
Looking on line, I found this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-easy-transfer
Changing the name seems to let new computer see old computer so far.
Ok this is odd: on their maps each computer states the other computer name cannot be put on the map and each states that the other computer is a media player.
I’m not sure what you are talking about with maps. Are you trying to map the drive?
You should be able to go to Computer on the Start Menu, then on the left hand side tree, scroll down to Network, expand it, then expand the other computer to see its drives and folders that you have shared. Make sure you enable file sharing and set the permissions to enable everybody to have full control first, or there won’t be anything on the other computer for you to see.
This requires networking, security and would be a royal pain in the ass. A cheap usb solution is called for.
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.
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When I go to run and type in ipconfig a square black screen pops up for just an instant. it does this on both computers.
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.
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When I go to run and type in ipconfig a square black screen pops up for just an instant. it does this on both computers.
bflr
Portable external drive.
Wireless is great but it has limitations and I would go with some kind of hardwire solution.
I would go with Western Digital for a brand name. Been let down by others especially Seagate.
Windows firewall is on and there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn it off.
go to help and type “turn off firewall” and you will get the link to open the security page.
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
“Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Firewall\Customize Settings”
the windows firewall link is in the left panel of system and security
by the way, I have 2 western digital portable drives. I put new files on it every once in a blood moon. My hard drive is pretty clean.
Type “cmd” in the run box.
Then, in the black box that comes up, type “ipconfig” and hit enter. If you just type ipconfig in the run box, without doing cmd first, it will run but exit immediately, so you can’t see the results (unless you are really quick with that pause button on the keyboard).
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