docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2011-08-02 07:25 am

File transfer question

I hath two laptops. I need to transfer lots o' gigs o' Stuff from one t' the other. Herein lies the problem - I have no flash drives nor external HDs with which to facilitate this transfer. So how can I accomplish this Herculean task?

[identity profile] suriel.livejournal.com 2011-08-02 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I've done both of these things.

the Belkin, weirdly, is the trickier option, since the cables and software appear to be specific to the OSs they support (one cable I bought worked literally only on a WinXP-to-Win7 transfer, and wouldn't even consider Win7-to-Win7).

crossover cables are pretty cheap, and yeah, you do have to just suck it up & wait the forever-hours for Windows Explorer to do the xfer, but it's fairly foolproof.