I’ve replaced my old laptop with a new one and I have over 350GB worth of data to move over, moving all of it to an external drive and then moving them to the new laptop doesn’t seem efficient and it seems like it’s gonna take forever

I know there are some special cables that can do that but I don’t wanna waste money on something that I’m only gonna use once every 5 years at most.

  • Xero@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    my home network is quite slow and the ethernet port on my old laptop is damaged, it only works sometimes so it’ll definitely disconnect during the process.

    • Slapplebags@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Buy a cheap USB to Ethernet adapter then and directly connect the two computers via Ethernet. USB to USB is possible but it’s not worth the time and effort, network will be faster and easier. Or why not just buy a cheap external hard drive? According to Amazon a 500gb external hard drive can be had for $30 USD.

    • tentphone@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You could try getting an external hard drive/SSD enclosure, putting the hard drive/ssd from your old laptop in it, and plugging it into your new computer to copy the files over. Twice as fast as copying to an external drive and then copying that to the new PC.

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Then use/get a usb data stick and transfer em that way or subsequently if it’s the laptop you want to transfer off of, remove the HDD or SSD and get an adapter to plug the drive into usb.

      Look for sata to usb adapters