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How do I connect my old computer to my new one via FTP?

Do you have a router? Just plug 'em both into the router and set up a small network. It'll be a heck of a lot faster than FTPing it.
 
take the drive out of the old pc, put it in the new one as a slave, even if just temporarily. much easier in the long run
 
There are many ways to accomplish this. FTP makes no sense unless the computers are in two different cities or something and cannot be moved.
 
cannot take out the old drive, these PCs are for work. And we have crazy high speed internet here. I download at like 10mb/s.

Don't have a crossover cable (that is a double sided usb cable right?)

How would I network them otherwise?
 
If you could gain access to a cross-over cable you could just connect from NIC to NIC... You would hve to make sure that they are on the same subnet and workgroup so there would be a little configuration to do.... The easiest thing would be to set the one drive up as a slave temporarily as suggested above.

Crossover cable - Something like a CAT 5 patch cable would work, the ends are both RJ 45's but the wires are in a reversed order on the ends...
 
Originally posted by: phatj
cannot take out the old drive, these PCs are for work. And we have crazy high speed internet here. I download at like 10mb/s.

Don't have a crossover cable (that is a double sided usb cable right?)

How would I network them otherwise?
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just buy a crossover cable and make this much easier on yourself
 
IF they are for work then they are probably on a network. Just setup a share on the old PC and then grab the files. What version of Windows is running on the PCs? How many Gb of data are we talking about?
 
A crossover cable is a Cat5 Ethernet cable that allows you to connect two NICs. You can get it for around the same price as a standard patch cable. Do that or just put the two PCs in the same workgroup and share files.
 
Originally posted by: phatj
cannot take out the old drive, these PCs are for work. And we have crazy high speed internet here. I download at like 10mb/s.

Don't have a crossover cable (that is a double sided usb cable right?)

How would I network them otherwise?
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No it isn't. Crossover cable is like a patch cable only 2 wires are reversed. You can't just take regular patch cable and go from one nic to the other, that is why there is a crossover cable.

Place crossover cable from nic on one computer to nic on 2nd computer. Make sure both computers are on same subnet.

Network and transfer.

Profit?
 
Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
Originally posted by: phatj
cannot take out the old drive, these PCs are for work. And we have crazy high speed internet here. I download at like 10mb/s.

Don't have a crossover cable (that is a double sided usb cable right?)

How would I network them otherwise?
Click to expand...

just buy a crossover cable and make this much easier on yourself
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go to store and buy the crossover cable its like 7 bucks and no its not a double sided USB cable. Its a regular network cable but the box will say crossover.

You also try a USB flash drive, but that could take a while.
 
Originally posted by: phatj
3 GB of data on XP
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That is no problem. What about them being on the same network? A cross over cable is only going to work if the machines are in the same room together. If they are already on the same network just setup a share and away you go.
 
So many suggestions for a cross over cable, but do you actually need one? If you can get both these machines on a network, IE: work public lan, then you can just transfer the files via ftp or across a windows share. Basically: \\<oldcomputername>\c$
 
Originally posted by: skace
So many suggestions for a cross over cable, but do you actually need one? If you can get both these machines on a network, IE: work public lan, then you can just transfer the files via ftp or across a windows share. Basically: \\<oldcomputername>\c$
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look at my answer.

and one more thing: i did this with 40gb of data. i plan on restoring most, if not all, of it tonight.
 
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