Networks Transferring files from one HDD to another

Hello all,

Before you go and lose respect for me asking a simple question, try to prevent yourself from doing so

My sister is going to uni soon, with a P!! and a poor 3Gb hard drive. I have decided that i will donate my 40GB WD drive to her and buy myself a Seagate 120Gb drive.

Now heres the question. I have all multimedia stored on my 40GB, and would like to directly transfer all the contents on my new Seagate.

So is this what i could do: using the existing cable from my ntl broadband, could i connect my sister's PC at the other end instead of the modem?

By doing this, do i install the additional component on the WinXP cd and transfer all the files?

I haven't networked 2 PC's before, but im more than willing to givit a try.

Now please, stop laughing at my computing intelligence!

 

Just put both drives in the same machine and copy your files from one disk to the other locally. Then put the old drive in your sister's box and the job's a goodun'

That's what I would do if I was moving a lot of files - you've gotta move your old drive anyway so, move the files onto the new disk beforehand.

 

So i take it that i can have WindowsXP operating system on both disks, set the 40GIG as the master one it loads up, then move/transfer the files. Cool

 

Yeah, if I were you, I'd set the old drive to slave, new one to master, then unplug the power from the old drive while you install XP to the new disk (just to avoid any probs if you are not used to dealing with multiple OS's). Then you can plug the power back into your old drive, boot off the new one and copy those files - good luck.