There are a lot of different ways of transferring the data from one computer
to another.  If both computers have network cards, setting up them up on a
local network may be the easiest way to accomplish this.

If you are comfortable with messing around with what is inside the computer
case, you could remove the hard drive from the old computer and temporarily
install it as a slave (change the jumper settings on the drive) in your new
computer.  Then, you could copy the data files that wish to keep off of the
old drive and onto the new drive.

After you return the old drive to the old computer, using the the restore cd
that came with that computer should return it to the shape that it was in
when you first got the computer.

The difference between Celerons and Pentiums depends on the models being
talked about.  Generally, the celeron is a hobbled version of whatever
pentium is currently available.  Comparing the Pentium 4 to the Celerons
based on the Pentium 4 (Celerons with speeds of 1.7 GHz and faster), the
main limitation is that these Celerons only have 128 KB of cache onboard
(compared to 512 KB on the Pentium 4)and they only run on a 400 MHz
frontside bus (compared to the 533 MHz and 800 MHz frontside buses that
Pentium 4s use).  Both of these factors cut into the Celeron's performance
compared to a regular Pentium 4 running at the same clock speed.  Because
Pentium 4s tend to need a lot of memory bandwidth anyway, these factors have
a rather drastic impact on the Celeron's performance.

On the other hand, unless you are using applications that are particularly
CPU instensive, even a relatively crippled processor like the Celeron still
has plenty of processing power for everyday uses, such as email, web
browsing, word processing, and other office applications.

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Becky" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 11:46 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] How to transfer hard drive contents to new computer


> I'm hoping for some advice.  I want to purchase a new desktop computer.
It
> will have about a 40 gig hardrive as opposed to the 12 gig I have now.
> There are 6 gigs of free space on this old one. I would like to give my
old
> one to my daughter.  How do I get the contents of my hard drive from the
old
> to the new?  I would then run the restore disk to give my daughter a clean
> "out of the box"
> hard drive right? One other quick question......how much difference is
there
> in a pentium and a celeron processor?

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