[Ham-Computers] And I thought it was going to be easy~~

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

One point that I'll add to the several viable methods various list members 
have offered is that the issue of FAT32 (or FAT16 for that matter) versus 
NTFS would only be an issue if you were physically moving the drive into 
another box with an OS that did not support the drive format architecture.  The 
recipient of any of the various copy methods suggested is unaware of how the 
source drive is organized.

Finally, one other file transfer method if both machines have Ethernet 
ports is to just cable the two machines together (without hub, switch or 
router).  This is known as peer-to-peer.  But it requires a cross-over cable, not a 
straight-through.  A cross-over cable has the receive and transmit pairs 
crossed (swapped) in the connector at one end (doesn't matter which end).

In a message dated 4/7/2009 10:01:46 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ko6bb at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe" <ottuser at comcast.net>
> To: <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
> 
> >Have a question for the group - -
> >
> >    I bought a new PC, so I could give my old one to a
> >friend so he could keep in touch with me via email
> >after we move this month - and what I thought was
> >going to be easy - don't seem to be so.  Question is:
> >How to I copy my FAT32 files on this PC over to
> >the new one that is NTFS??  Old PC has XP PRO
> >and the new one is XP HOME.  Can it be done
> >by going USB Port-to-Port?  I do not want to
> >reformat the new pc, unless there is no other way.
> >IS there?  Appreciate any insite to this 'problem'
> >for me.
> >TIA
> >Joe W7LPF
> 

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