transferring to Laptop.

[Bob Williams]

Hi guys, I have a problem. I am trying to find a way to get all my data, music and pic’s onto my wife’s laptop.

Laptop is a Lenovo B50, has 128 GB Hdd. Both systems running Windows 10, lappy is Pro, Desktop Home. Lappy also has a DVDRW, which can be replaced with Disk 2 (F), with 480 GB. Both machines have Firefox and separate Menu items. Going to remove a lot of my menu items: wife won’t need them. But how can I manage transferring some of my stuff to hers? I have a 64 GB, USB3 Corsair ‘Slider’, but am considering loading that with what I will need. Thoughts, anyone?

STORAGE MEDIA, Desktop

Disk 0 ‘C’ SSD 480 GB nominal inc. ‘E’ System Reserved Internal,O/S drive.

Disk 1 ‘H’ Hdd 1.82 GB nominal Music/video/images Internal.

Disk 2 ‘F’ SSD 480 GB nominal Currently empty.

Disk 3 ‘G’ Hdd 1.82 GB nominal Backups via Macrium Reflect. External, USB3.

Thanks in advance, Bob.

 

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[JayCeeDee]

Hi Bob, glad to see life is keeping you busy!!!😉

Instead of trying to squash it all into the lappy, might a NAS not be the better way to go? I seem to remember you’ve got a lot of music ( and photos too ). Then all that was needed would be for your your GS to point the lappy at the appropriate folders on the NAS.

[Dave Rice]

I’d format the 480GB with Fat32 (to stop any NTFS permission issues) and physically transfer it that way.

However, if your router has a USB port you can probably use that to share a USB drive over the network as a simple NAS. They do tend to be slow though.

[keith with the teef]

I read a strange article about purchasing a gaming lap top and it went on to taalk about the bells and whistles.

The heads up of it was to be careful about what wattage support was given to  the hardware and that you could end up getting stung by buying a top tear lappy with 85 watts supply which under performs the lower and cheaper second tear lappy receiving 115 watts.

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