Our local Fry's Electronics has recently had special offers twice on a kit
sold under the name "Triton" to package up an IDE hard drive in an external
case via USB.  It provides two more USB jacks on the front of the case, and
"card reader" slots for SD and CF flash cards, all for about $30 or so.

  On the other hand, I recently got a good deal on a couple of gigabit fiber
NICs, so I can now copy fairly sizable data partitions from one box to the
other in an hour or two, or less.

Dave Gillett


On 2 Oct 2004 at 12:24, Maurice J. Reid wrote:

> Don't know what your old and new OS and exactly what you want to move over
> (files, or programs or both), but you can direct connect between both
> machines, USB, parallel or serial with software; install your old HD as
> slave in your new box; or what I found to be the easiest is to buy a drive
> kit, (range in price $50 - $70, cheaper if sale) and just drop (fugitively
> speaking) your old drive in, hook it up to your new computer via USB and
> voila, all your old files and programs are there ready to use. Loss in
> transfer and processing speed is hardly noticeable for most users. Just be
> sure the kit contains a cooling fan and has its own direct power source.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Maurice Reid
>
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> > Hello all.  I am getting a new computer and would like to know how the
> best way to move all my documents, pictures, etc. to the new computer.  My
> files are too large to backup onto a CD as I've tried.  They are even too
> large for a 128 mb thumb drive (or whatever they are called).  Thanks for
> any advice.  DB
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