Congratulations! You’ve just got a new branded computer compatible with the much awaited Windows 11!
Before you jump right in with joy and start using your new computer, hold your breath a little longer and think about the data stored on your old PC. After setting up your new computer and installing the required applications, the first thing you should do is get back all the data from your old machine.
Of course, transferring data is easy these days, thanks to the immense popularity of cloud technology. However, the cloud may not be a handy option if you’ve 200-400 GBs of data on the old hard disk, or if you don’t have a fast and stable Internet connection at home. So what should you do? Curious whether there are any direct data transfer methods available? Read on to find them out..
Using a SATA Hard Disk Enclosure (also known by different names, SATA Hard Disk Case and USB Casing for Hard Disk), you can connect your old computer’s hard disk directly to your new PC externally using the USB Port. It eliminates the need of transferring data from your old hard disk to another intermediary storage device, and then again back to your new PC. It can save a lot of your time and clicks. You’ll see the data from your old hard disk into File Explorer exactly as you would see other files on your new PC. The partitions from your old hard disk would appear in the File Explorer (obviously, with drive letters changed) and you could directly copy or move your files without relying on an external hard disk, USB flash drive or a DVD.
SATA Hard Disk Enclosure Features:
How to Use?
Many of us use the LAN cable to connect our computers to the Internet through a router. One end of our LAN cable is connected to the computer and another to the router. But did you know that a LAN cable can also be used to directly connect two computers? Much like your router, you can directly connect the LAN cable to both of your machines at the same time and seamlessly transfer your files. After connecting your old machine to the new computer, you’ll need to perform the initial configuration to start file sharing. This technology uses the Network File Sharing feature on your computer.
Steps to be performed on Computer-1 (Old Computer):
Steps to be performed on Computer-2 (New Computer):
Transfer your Files:
Follow the steps given below on your new computer to transfer your files:
It’s obvious that the old computer that you used for years, has accumulated a lot of data over years. The actual file transfer process can become slow and tedious if you’ve a large chunk of duplicate files.
Duplicate files are the identical copies of your documents, images, videos, music, etc. These files not only take additional storage of your hard disk, but also make the file transfer process painfully slow. Finding duplicates manually is not easy as the duplicates can be located in different folders, sub-folders and partitions. By eliminating the duplicate files, you can make the transfer faster and organize your files in a better way.
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