A Little Advice Please

Hello friends (sorry if in wrong part of forum)
Still finding my way around this new set up I know I asked this yesterday but cant work out how to find the thread.


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Can you give me a little guidance.
At the end of the day it is my decision I know.
Have asked around other forums.
If I did go ahead how easy is it to exchange all my present computers contents from old to new.
Multimedia PC MEDION® AKOYA®

£479. 99 each *



For more information about this product click here

* AMD Phenomâ„¢ II X4 820 Quad Core processor 2.8 GHz, 6 MB Total Cache
* Brilliant ATI Radeon® HD5670 Direct® 11 graphic card with 1024 MB graphic memory and D-Sub VGA, DVI-I and HDMI interface (HDCP support)
* Large 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM memory¹
* Big 1 TB (1000 GB) S-ATA hard disk for more than 200,000 music tracks or photos²
* Multiformat DVD/CD burner³ supports all the usual DVD/CD standards, incl. dual layer DVD-R and DVD+R
* High speed wireless LAN IEEE 802.11n-standard technology with up to 300 Mbit/s., 802.11b/g compatible4
* Network Controller Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000 Mbit/s.)
* eSATA connection for connecting external SATA devices
* 8 channel high definition audio5
* Multi-standard card reader6
* Connections: Front: Multi Card Reader, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x Microphone, 1 x Headphone, 1 x eSATA Rear: 2 x PS/2, 4 x USB 2.0, 1 x FireWire, 1 x LAN (RJ-45), 1 x Front line out, 1 x Back surround line out, 1 x Centre/Subwoofer line out, 1 x Side surround line out, 1 x Line in, 1 x SPDIF optical out

My present system
Operating System System Model Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
MEDIONPC MS-7204
Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a
Main Circuit Board b 3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium D
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-7204 REV:A
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 10/07/2005 Drives Memory Modules c,d 1910.35 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
799.09 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SONY DVD RW DW-Q31A [CD-ROM drive]
SONY DVD-ROM DDU1615 [CD-ROM drive]
3072 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Slot 'A3' has 512 MB

ST3250823AS [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 0
ST350083 0AS USB Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 3
WD 1600BB External USB Device [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 4
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OK I think this is sort of covered by the Backup forum or the general windows Forum I'm undecided so once I have decided I will move this for you

But the "easiest" way is to remove the hard drive from your old machine and plug it into your new machine, your new machine even has a esata port on the rear so you don't even have to open the case just get the right cable, however this is the most technical way. then you will be able to just drag and drop in windows.

the simplest has to be to just connect both machines over your network, if you don't have a spare wireless card or USB Dongle then, you can Hard wire the one using an Ethernet cable, and transfer the files across the network. (Probably the Best option)

A more time consuming option would be to use a USB Drive and to transfer the files to this then to your new PC,

my least favourite and probably the longest most time consuming would be to burn all your files to DVD, then transfer them that way,

For me I would always go with the top option, but normally because I build my own PC's the drive would end up in the new PC any way, But if your not the most technically of minded people then the second option has to be the best unless your not familiar with networking two or more PC's together, then the use of an external USB drive has to be the best, and even if you have to go out and buy one, you then have it to back up your files with

The old DVD backing up option I think is slowly starting to die, and by the end of this year my only use for DVD's will be for film rental, or to buy a film on before its transferred to my PC,

Quite often wonder on the legalities of downloading a film if I have bought a copy of it, and its unopened in the loft but would never do it as I'm not into free Viruses

 

peoples interpretation of 'transfer' mean different things.
do you mean just photos and data or do you mean the whole lot?

Photos and Data can be done as Match has suggested, but for a complete transfer in terms of settings and accounts etc, there is a wizard you can use within windows, I am unsure how it works in W7, but in XP to Vista (I think Polo did not too long ago, so if he can jump in and advise )