:) Hello to all

I was previously using a Dell 8100 with Win ME on it. However, the system was very unstable and unreliable. We were having constant problems with it shutting on-off, restarting, freezing, locking up...blah blah blah.

So instead of trying to solve the problem my boss decided to purchase a new system. I now have an HP system with WIN XP HOME on it.

My question is, would it be possible to transfer the data from the old working HD to the new systems HD? The old HD was running WIN ME and the new is running WIN XP HOME. There is really important information on it and was hoping there would be some way to transfer the data. :confused:

If you have a network at work, you can just plug in the ME PC and shre the folders in question and copy accross the wire.

or

You could place the old hard drive in the new PC temporarily and transfer the data that way

or

You could place the old drive in USB drive enclosure copy the files over, reformat the old drive and use it as backup device.....

I transferred my data [from one to PC to another] using a CD-RW disk and packet-writing program.
A CD-RW drive is needed on the source PC, but an ordinary CD-reader will do on any destination PC [the CD automatically installs the UDF reader][you could copy them to any PC (at any time and as often as you like) without the need for them to be connected/networked].
To avoid the problem of all the file attributes being set as read-only [happens when you read from a CD], I put the files in zip archives before copying to the CD.
On the destination PC the archive files were unzipped and the files inside those had their original attributes.

Hey Sylvander,

thanks a lot for the info but as soon as I saw what Classic typed out, I took the old HD with WIN ME and hooked in into the newer PC with XP HOME. I didn't know that although they are two different OS's that they could still communicate and transfer that way.

THANKS CLASSIC SOFTWARE! Now I guess all I need to do is format the old HD and use it as a backup.

Buy yourself an external drive enclosure. Attaches by USB or Firewire. Easy to take from PC to PC. Backup up your data files easily....