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Hi all,

I'm going to be upgrading one of our employees to a new computer. We're a small business, so we don't have any imaging tools. Does anyone know of a "best practices" or a guide on how to transfer this data? I thought about just moving the HD, but she has a relatively small (15 GB) HD and it may not be compatible with the new system.

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks!
 
Have both on the network and transfer the data. If you have an external USB box, you can put her hdd in there and plug it in the new system. Easy thing to do..

If you are talking about programs/application, good luck :D..
 
By data do you just mean a folder full of files or something? Or do you want everything moved over?

If it's the former, I'd say hook both up to a router and copy all your data via FTP to a temporary folder then move around on the new harddrive as needed, of course you'll have to reinstall all the programs and what not first, but eh. It's a cheap solution. You could do the same by having the computers share the same network, but I found that data transfer speeds suck that way. You could so get a USB flashdrive (couple gigs or something) and transfer then move, do that a few times as needed for all the files you have.

But as phong said, if you're talking applications and the programs themselves... good luck.. :D (I'd just reinstall them myself).
 
Thanks Phong and Mike!

It's just data, no programs would need to be moved. I'll probably go the flash drive route; one of the employees has an 8 Gig USB drive, so I'll go with that.
 
flash drives are nice for this. for work, I had to get an encrypted USB drive. I was surprised when it turned out being a 32gb one. TONS of space and it wasn't that expensive.
 
what level of encryption does it have? Link? Model/price? I've been in the market for one :)
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609355
256 bit AES software based encryption (software built on drive). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard
32gig. $70

If you need to use hardware encryption, it gets really expensive for the space.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2003240522%2050011962&name=IRONKEY
 
itsacrispy said:
Nice. On a sidenote, aren't flash drives considered solid-state drives? If so, are they stable enough to run an OS off of?
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You could, however there are some issues.

1) It would have the same problems as a current SSD, in that multiple read/writes tends to bring them to a crawl.
2) Obvious your bios has to support booting from a USB port
3) And the main issue, is that SSDs now incorporate an algorithm that spreads out the even more or less evenly across all the chips, as you read/write more on flash you up the chance of it not working anymore, not sure many USB flash drives do this.
 
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