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Uncle Peter · 11-09-2007, 12:34

You can connect both machines to a switch (assuming they both have ethernet cards) and use windows file & printer sharing. The donor PC doesn't have to be connected to a monitor, it just needs to be able to boot to the desktop from cold.

If there's a relatively small amount of data, ie. not tens of GBs you could use a big memory stick and shovel it across in chunks.

11-09-2007, 12:34	#3
Uncle Peter 81-82-83-84 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: on holiday by mistake Age: 55 Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2 Posts: 5,977	Re: Small question re: 2 computers You can connect both machines to a switch (assuming they both have ethernet cards) and use windows file & printer sharing. The donor PC doesn't have to be connected to a monitor, it just needs to be able to boot to the desktop from cold. If there's a relatively small amount of data, ie. not tens of GBs you could use a big memory stick and shovel it across in chunks.