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Transferring Files from Computer to Computer

Your HP Media Vault can help you simplify transferring files and settings from an old computer to a new computer.

Using a feature found in the Windows XP operating system called the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard, you can transfer files, folders, and settings for Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in addition to desktop and display settings, dial-up connections, and other types of settings to a file on your server. On the new computer, you access this file stored on your server and transfer the settings and files to your new computer. The Windows Files and Settings Transfer Wizard must be available on the Windows operating system on both your old and new computers.

Steps for Windows XP

On your old computer
  1. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Files & Settings Transfer Wizard.
  2. The Wizard’s first dialog box appears.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Click Old Computer.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Click Other.
  7. Either Browse to a folder on your server, or use the Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) to type in the path.
  8. For example, to save your settings to Documents, type in the Folder or drive: box: \\HPMediaVault\Documents.
  9. Click Next.
  10. Click one of the following:
    • Settings only
    • Files only
    • Both files and settings
    • Let me select a custom list of files and settings when I click Next (for advanced users.) If you click on this option, you are asked to select specific Settings, Folders, Files and File Types that you wish to transfer.
  11. Click Next.
  12. Click Next after reading any messages that appear on this screen.
  13. Wait while the wizard collects your files and settings. Depending on the size and type of the files you’re saving, this could take several minutes.
  14. Click Finish.
On your new computer
  1. Follow steps 1-2 above to run the Files & Settings Transfer Wizard on your new computer.
  2. Click New Computer.
  3. Click I don’t need the Wizard Disk, I have already collected my files and settings from my old computer.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Click Other.
  6. Browse to or type in the path that you entered in step 6 above.
  7. This path directs the new computer to the shared folder on your server where you stored your files, folders and settings. If you used the example above, the path is the same: \\HPMediaVault\Documents.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Wait while the wizard transfers your files and settings to your new computer. Depending on the size and type of the files you’re transferring, this could take several minutes.
  10. Click Finish.

Steps for Windows Vista

Windows Easy transfer can use one of the following methods to migrate files and settings:

  • Use a Easy Transfer Cable, a special USB cable that can connect two computers
  • Network Connection
  • CD, DVD, or other Removable Media
Note
 

If you are running any other programs, you will be prompted to close these programs. You can save your work in each program, and then close the programs individually. You can also click Close All in Windows Easy Transfer to close these programs immediately.

On the old computer

Method 1: Use an Easy Transfer Cable.
  1. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Windows Easy Transfer.
  2. If a "User Account Control" dialog box opens, click Next.
  3. A dialog box appears detailing what can be moved and 2 links:
    • Which versions of Windows work with Windows Easy Transfer?
    • Go online to learn how to improve you transfer experience.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Click Start a new transfer.
  6. Click This is my old computer.
  7. The next dialog box appears giving the three choices for accomplishing the transfer; choose Use an Easy Transfer Cable.
  8. A dialog box appears showing how to connect the cable.
  9. Install a USB cable that can connect the two computers, and install the any drivers that are appropriate for your situation.
  10. Start Windows Easy Transfer to transfer files and settings to the destination computer.
Method 2: Use a network drive to migrate files and settings.
  1. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Windows Easy Transfer.
  2. If a "User Account Control" dialog box opens, click Next.
  3. A dialog box appears detailing what can be moved and 2 links:
    • Which versions of Windows work with Windows Easy Transfer?
    • Go online to learn how to improve you transfer experience.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Click Start a new transfer.
  6. Click This is my old computer.
  7. The next dialog box appears giving the three choices for accomplishing the transfer; choose Transfer directly using a network connection.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Click Through a network.
  10. Click Connect directly via network to start the migration.
    11. Note
     

    Click Save to network location if you want to store the files and the settings in a file that will be loaded later. If you want to store the files and the settings on a network drive, you will be prompted to provide the path where you want to store the files and the settings.

  11. Click Everything - all user accounts, files, and program settings (recommended) to migrate all the files and the settings. If you want to determine exactly which files and settings that you want to migrate, click Only my user account, files, and program settings, or click Custom.
  12. Review the list that contains the files and the settings that you want to migrate, and then click Start. To add or to remove files or settings from the list, click Customize.
  13. Click Close after Windows Easy Transfer has completed the migration of files and settings to the destination computer.
Method 3: Use CD, DVD or removable media to migrate files and settings.
  1. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Windows Easy Transfer.
  2. If a "User Account Control" dialog box opens, click Next.
  3. A dialog box appears detailing what can be moved and 2 links:
    • Which versions of Windows work with Windows Easy Transfer?
    • Go online to learn how to improve you transfer experience.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Click Start a new transfer.
  6. Click This is my old computer.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Determine the appropriate removable transfer media, and then click On a CD or other removable media, such as a flash drive.
  9. Click To a network drive to save the files and the settings to a folder that is on the removable drive.
  10. In Where do you want to save your files, type the path to a folder on the removable drive, and then click Next.
  11. Click Everything - all user accounts, files, and program settings (recommended) to migrate all the files and the settings. If you want to determine exactly which files and settings that you want to migrate, click Only my user account, files, and program settings, or click Custom.
  12. Review the list that contains the files and the settings that you want to migrate, and then click Start. To add or to remove files or settings from the list, click Customize.
  13. Click Close after Windows Easy Transfer has completed migrating files and settings.
  14. Connect the removable media to the destination computer.
  15. Start Windows Easy Transfer, and then click Next.
  16. Click Continue a transfer in progress.
  17. In Where did you copy your files, click Removable media. If the Removable media option is unavailable, click Network Drive, and then click Next.
  18. In Locate your saved files, type the path where you saved the files and the settings. You can also click Browse to locate the files and the settings. Click Next after you have located the files and the settings.
  19. Select the user names on the destination computer that match the user names on the source computer. If there is not any user account that is created on the destination computer, you may have to create new accounts. To create an account on the local computer, directly type a user name. To create a profile or a domain user, type a user name in the following format: domain\user.
  20. In Choose the drives for files on your new computer, select the destination drive for each source drive.
  21. Review the list that contains the files and the settings that you want to migrate, and then click Start. To add or remove files or settings from the list, click Customize.
  22. Click Close after Windows Easy Transfer has completed migrating files and settings.
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