copying a hard drive

slowhands

Need to copy one hard drive on a pc on to anothe pc.Whats the easiest method of doing this?

aidan_walsh

The entire disk, or just the files? Including Windows?

slowhands

pretty much all files,except windows.

aidan_walsh

How big are the HDDs in question? How far apart are the computers?

slowhands

its about 80 gigs.pcs are five feet apart

ai ing

A simple crossover cable and use windows filesharing to share the complete drive you want to copy to the other hard drive

slowhands

ai ing wrote:

A simple crossover cable and use windows filesharing to share the complete drive you want to copy to the other hard drive

What kinda cable do i need?

aidan_walsh

1) Connect the two with a network cable.
2) Give each a static IP address by going to Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Local Area Connection -> TCP\IP -> Properties -> Use the following IP address -> 192.168.0.1 (computer 1) & 192.168.0.2 (computer 2)
3) Share the two hard disks. (Right-click -> Share -> Give a name)
4) Copy the files across by opening Explorer, typing 192.168.0.x (where x is the last number of the IP address of the computer you want to copy the files from), open the share, grab the files and copy and paste.

aidan_walsh

A regular network cable ought to do.

slowhands

Cheers for the help.ill try that

KeRbDoG

aidan_walsh wrote:

A regular network cable ought to do.

Wouldnt yea need a cross-over network cable like what "ai ing" said