BB wants a new computer - PC this time

[crazy canuck]

Do I?

[Grey Fox]

You don't?!

[Norgy]

Does he?
The suspense is absolutely killing me now.

[katmai]

[Barrister]

Bah - now I'm in the last, and most boring stage - trying to copy over all the data from the old computer.  Which means, unfortunately, having to copy info over from both the Mac and PC installs.

I have to admit though - I never realized the old computer was so slow till I had the new computer installed on the SSD.

[viper37]

you're doing it over the network or with USB drives/pen drives?

[crazy canuck]

Since my computer is dead how would I get data transferred?  Just instal my old hard drive as an extra drive?

[Syt]

Since my computer is dead how would I get data transferred?  Just instal my old hard drive as an extra drive?

Unless the HD is fried that should work. There's also kits so you can set up an internal HD as external HD if you don't want to add it permanently to your new machine, but don't want to get rid of it, either.

[Barrister]

you're doing it over the network or with USB drives/pen drives?

Last night was spent copying pictures over.  Put them on a portable HDD that we have for just this purpose.

Music and other files will go on a USB drive.

[DontSayBanana]

Since my computer is dead how would I get data transferred?  Just instal my old hard drive as an extra drive?

Unless the HD is fried that should work. There's also kits so you can set up an internal HD as external HD if you don't want to add it permanently to your new machine, but don't want to get rid of it, either.

This.  A decent USB enclosure is worth its weight in gold for data recovery.

[garbon]

Since my computer is dead how would I get data transferred?  Just instal my old hard drive as an extra drive?

Unless the HD is fried that should work. There's also kits so you can set up an internal HD as external HD if you don't want to add it permanently to your new machine, but don't want to get rid of it, either.

Yeah when I migrated from a rather old computer, I bought an enclosure thingy to use my original main drive as an external. Worked great.

[crazy canuck]

Thanks for the tips

[Barrister]

Still copying files over from the old Mac Pro.

I gotta say that USB 3.0 is definitely proving itself.  The time spent copying from the old is massive compared to copying over to the new computer with USB 3.0.

This however is the one downside to moving full time to Windows: having to live with iTunes on Windows.    (it's not completely terrible on OS X)

[katmai]

This however is the one downside to moving full time to Windows: having to live with iTunes on Windows.    (it's not completely terrible on OS X)

Should have bought a mac

[Barrister]

Gah!  I'm hitting an infuriating problem with Steam.  I go to install, it doesn't recognize my password.  Thinking perhaps I am mis-remembering it (Steam rarely asks you to type your password) I go to change the password, which goes ahead.  But then it fails to recognize the new password.

I've hit change password two or three times over the last couple days (there's a lengthy lock-out) and every time the new password doesn't get recognized when I go to log in.



Any ideas out there?