File transfer question

[docwebster]

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?

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[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Belkin File Transfer Cable
http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=506029

or ... a cross over network cable - difference being no fancy software to make it easy, you have to do all the file transfer
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[suriel.livejournal.com]

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.