Transferring Files Between Computers?

Okay, lemme state that first...

I want to transfer files between my old computer and my new computer, generally an easy task... except... my old computer CANNOT connect via internet, and I have no cross connecting cables for direct transfer.

I can connect to my router via cable on my old computer, yet I CANNOT achieve internet, I have tried everything I can feasibly think of and I cannot get an internet connection for network sharing. Let me state this again, NO INTERNET CONNECTION FOR NETWORK SHARING.

Now, I had this same issue a while back, and someone from here helped me fix it via making my old machine into an FTP server that I could connect through my router hub without having a live internet connection.

I am wondering if someone can help walk me through alternative methods to file transferring between old and new computers, either via the above ftp approach, possibly helping me get live internet back so I can simply run a network connection, or any other alternative method.

I have multiple HUNDREDS of gigabytes of space I need to transfer, so simple physical methods of file transfering is not enough, and I am too cheap to get an external hard drive.

 

you cant share the drive? yes i know i read u said no sharing via internet, but you can't access the computer with //server/c don't the computer has an local ip address assign to it?

edit: this won't work?

http://www.gamerenders.com/forum/index.php...t&p=4060116

 

Gimme a few, I will try that, didn't even think about that =P.

 

The network path \\192.168.0.3\C could not be found.

 

uh.. drive c is what you are sharing in the other pc right?

and you did that

\\192.168.0.3\c

in the main pc right?

PC A: share c

PC B: \\192.168.0.3\c

edit:

i don't know any otehr way, unless you install an ftp server. such as filezilla i think is the name..

 

Yes, I shared my entire C folder and named the folder C, the computers IP address is 192.168.0.3, both systems are on and plugged into my monitor. The new computer is the one connecting to the \\192.168.0.3\C, the old computer is setup that way.

If I could simply figure out how to get the ethernet working again, I would be able to do this fast and easy, but for w/e reason its just not connecting, no matter how I decide to connect the ethernet.

 

external hard drive is the way to go... just cough up the dough. its totally worth it (because then you can use it for back ups once youve finished with this).

 

I would quicker write down each and every file on my system and re-download / aquire them all.

I am not paying a few hundred dollars for an external hard drive when I can simply partition my drives and use them as backups with the OS install on another partition so I can simply format and be back to a perfect system with all my important files readily available.

 

Just use a flashdrive. Several ones.

Or a USB File Transfer Cable.

 

uh.. but where is the folder c located? cuz c represents the drive it self.. try sharing the entire drive what ever letter it is on the system C D E ect

 

I did. I shared the entire C drive on my old computer (the non-partitioned one).

I can ping the IP, and get a response, but I can't log into the IP via mapping the drive, or via online connections, or via remote connections.

 

dam :/ id;. thats network issues than. firewall? router blocking access?

 

Router possibly, but the router is preventing me from accessing it to look at its settings, and firewall isn't likely, my old computer has no firewall and the MS one is disabled.

 

I don't know if this would necessarily be the easiest idea, but why not take your old harddrive(s) and put it in your new computer?

 

Its an IDE drive, my new computer is Sata, and only has 1 port for IDE, which is currently taken.