Hi,

I'm no computer whizz so please bear with me!

I want to copy all the files from my old laptop (acer travelmate) to my NEW SONY vaio laptop without copying over the Operating System (old laptop runs on XP, the new on Vista)

Can anyone please TELL me the best way to do this and what cable is required to CONECT the laptop.

Many THANKS in advance, much appreciated.

Lee
Are your laptops networked to get on the internet or anything like that?

If so, you can just share the Hard drive on the old laptop and go into it through the new laptop to get the files you want.Many thanks GX, my old laptop is on a wireless network but not connected the new one yet.

I'm giving my old laptop to a friend so ideally want to format this once I've copied over the files.

thanks again, LeeYou can also use a crossover cable.

Alan <>< Burn your files on a DVD and copy them to your new laptop.It'd be a lot faster to just do it over a network, And it's pretty simple to setup. So I'd recommend it.just share the hard drive on the old laptop over the network with a cross over network cable (red), and copy the files that you want.Quote from: programming_pat on September 19, 2007, 08:56:38 PM

just share the hard drive on the old laptop over the network with a cross over network cable (red), and copy the files that you want.