Best way to transfer over 300GB of videos and 30GB of music.

Richierichdolla

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I am wondering what is the best way to transfer my video and music collection to my new HDD on my pc from my laptop. I only have a 16GB flash drive for external transfers. Would going thru my Home network be the best way to do this instead of using a 16GB flash drive

 

TiZakit

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Take the HDD out of the laptop, connect it to the desktop via normal sata power and data lines, drag and drop.

 

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Richierichdolla

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wow never thought of that lol. Would windows 7 being installed on the laptop HDD effect how I would do this. I mean would I have to do any work arounds since I have windows 7 already installed on my ssd in my pc and using the HDD on my pc for media, or as long as my ssd is set as boot drive I am ok?

 

TiZakit

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Should be good to go with that configuration

If for some reason you can't boot, I'd just plug it in while the system is running.

 

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Richierichdolla

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Thanks for the info

 

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wingman99

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You probably won't be able to hot swap with SATA. However make sure the boot order is correct otherwise you just might boot off the laptop drive.

 

TiZakit

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I hot swap it all the time. Probably the AHCI.

 

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SATA is hot-swapable if it's in AHCI mode (IDE mode is made for computability with PATA drives, so it disables newer features like that).

But yeah, shouldn't be a problem, just make sure your computer boots off the right drive (usually mashing F12 brings up boot device menu at startup, same time you would normally mash delete for BIOS).

 

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If you cant do that, you can always get a USB to sata and run the laptop HDD as a USB external drive. I've done it. Heck my 500g USB drive is a laptop 5400rpm sata drive. the adapter would prob run ya about $15

 

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Crossover Ethernet cable works too. If they're both newer computers, might be able to use a regular one and have the ports auto-detect and switch pins (crossover cable switches the other of pins on one side and they'll show up as devices on each others computer).