My Mom got a new computer for her 92nd Birthday last week. She said she used the "onedrive thingy device" to move all of her stuffs. Then on the new computer she is installing the programs when she realizes she needs them. The first thing she get installed was roboform as her memory isn't what it used to be. I was really proud of her.
I am a bit younger than your Mom, 65, and just love the fact she is 92 and still keeping up. I have been trying to decide if I even need a new computer and based on your story I have decided I do absolutely. Your Mom sounds like a fun lady I can understand your pride
Fun tip, holding Shift, while dragging to a new drive also switches to Move. When Move is the default, holding CTRL switches to Copy. I transfer files quite regularly and this is faster for me.
I am a bit paranoid that I will move when I need to copy and vice versa and I never trust what windows/programs is considering default for drag and drop (move copy or make a shortcut) :D I always use right click
May have missed it mentioned but the hidden AppData folder in the User folder can contain important files, for example some games store their saves and/or settings there. Set file explorer to show hidden files to find it or search "%appdata%".
It still pisses me off that developers haven't settled on one standard for save data location, they go hiding your data in the most obscure directory and wonder why people have problems with their software.
It’s really easy to transfer. Just copy the c:\users\profile you are using and copy that whole folder and paste it to the new pc. Everything from docs to desktop will transfer. It even goes to the original destination. It will copy the local app data and roaming app data.
This video was unhelpful. Anyone can do this. I needed help transferring files to my external hard drive when you can't access wins 10 when booting up.
Quick note 1) The shortcuts that were leftover after moving the files from the Desktop folder stayed because they were in the 'All Users' folder (a.k.a. C:\Users\Public) Many programs put their shortcut into this folder so they can appear across all user profiles on the PC. Like Paul said, they're usually disposable, but it's worth looking before you delete them.
Paul, I(and many of your subscribers and fans) love your content. Please keep making more! I know the last couple years of the state of the computer component industry have made things more challenging for tech tubers, but we are here to support you through views and merchandise purchases.
Hi. If you're happy with your current drive and your old drive's compatible with your new pc, that's okay. Used to do it for my past 4 computers until now, because my new hard drive is faster, and physically different, so... 😊
My best advice is to plug all the old PCs drives into the new PC temporarily, then boot off that main drive. You can use a program like Acronis backup or similar that will allow you to copy an entire drive (even a boot drive) in their entirety. Your only snag might be if your board has only 1 m.2 and you’re upgrading, but that’s uncommon. You could always copy old m.2 to sata drive, the. Sata drive to new m.2. Upgrading my PCs m.2 from PCIe 3 to PCIe 4 took me only about 5 mins in setup, and whatever the transfer time was. Take the old drive out, boot off the new, good to go!
@@catlee8064 Umm. Not so much. back up everything apart from OS on USB. Easy to get even a 240Gb USB for under $20. Hell I turned one into an ear ring as a fashion statement. But do a clean install and install clean new drivers for MB Video drivers updated everything drivers, basically new driver for every single new piece of hardware in your system. And the software to best interface with that system. Without more info that's your best bet. I mean you haven't even said if going from Intel to AMD. But even Intel to Intel a fresh new install is ALWAYS your best bet.
I kinda did that when I got a new 2tb ssd instead of my old hdd. Only I never got around to actually plugging out the old one, so now I have to figure out how to save all my possibly dublicated data.... Sigh. I have found the tools, just not the motivation
The is a very good tutorial and I have recommended it to a friend who lives a couple of hundred miles away, who has bought a windows 10 Laptop. The only issue I have with with this tutorial, is that it is almost impossible to read any of the file or folder names, as you move though explaining the process. Next time you do something similar, I would recommend using the Windows scaling feature to make text and screen objects larger. This will make your tutorials much easier to view and comprehend.
Ninite is a useful utility for downloading a number of programs easily, I think Linus recommended it When I first built my PC about 4 years ago now, I had only a 128 GB boot SSD and a 1 TB HDD so I mapped my docs, music, videos, and Steam games onto D: instead of C: and it definitely came in handy when I had to RMA my SSD. Then when I had to reformat my boot drive again for whatever reason I had everything backed up already. Steam games especially saved me plenty of time not having to download everything again.
Man I literally just finished building a new PC for myself today and I've not been looking forward to having to move everything over... excellent timing on this vid sir!
Why not use the Macrium Reflect software application to clone the contents of the drives in the old computer onto the drives that will be in the new computer? Of course, new software license keys will need to added, especially for Windows and MSFT Office and such, but that too is easy. Cloning drive contents with Macrium Reflect is a much more efficient approach to this task, one I've done many, many times, than copying files by hand.
@@holdenman8850 Are you "serious"? A clone is an "exact" sector clone. Unless a "old" computer is absurdly old, a clone is a far better way to avoid problems than the gazillions of pitfalls in trying to copy individual files and folders by hand, possibly creating disasters like skipping essential files / folders on an historical disc. Even for a system drive, a simple trip to the Device Manager is the way to clean up, verify correctness of, and updated it device software. this is the way to avoid problems, the infinite potential problems than can result from hand copying files / folders, especially by using the File Explorer GUI. The video above, just was not very good advice at all, imo.
Awsomeeee! Thanks!!!! Have my old PC and sooop torn between using the new GPU and CPU in it as an overhaul till I do a platform swap with am6, OR IF I just build a new am4 system for fashion and have 2 great systems to nerd out for 2 years till am6 orrrrr go for a am5 enthusiast build and stressing and oc fun and then upgrade CPU for 8000 ryzen or wait till like 10000 series or w/e 5 years later hah. Any upgrade is massive, but I think I have the money and will enjoy the build fun and power way more even if it's a waste of money. Just such a hard choice cause if I don't salvage the 5 year old build which is safer, I'll need a full gear up anyway at which point am5 is way more cost effective even tho I bought a 5800x3d~ my current PC is BAD at fitting a tower cooler for it so I might need a stock cooler and 5600x for my old system to get another 5 years out of my 1080 casually and just do a perfect tier am4 build with it, sell it to someone from r most money back, or just keep it as a 300$ paper weight for stupidity and build am5 anyway with 7800x3d idk XD good thing is once new system is up and perfect, I can spend years modifying old system to fit or push 5800x3d even with an aio and just have fun for once
NAH, it’s much easier, especially if you got a brand new computer to just do your fresh install of windows, then once you have all your drivers and updates done, toss in the old SSD and you can just drag and drop documents, photos, music. Etc. game saves. Why do three steps if you could just do on and take half the time? :)
You forgot about winget! Really fast way to see what you've got installed, and it will even pull what it can from the internet automatically if you import the file on the new machine. winget export -o export.txt By default it saves to C:\Users\, but you can change the path.
I need to have word, Excell and outlook transferred. I don't have my old computer. But the guy did copy everything on an external drive. Will I just do the same steps like you mentioned? I don't want to have to buy the windows programs all over again since the old computer mother board died :(
I.most definitely did it wrong then. I just unplugged the ssd from my old one and plugged into my new pc and turned it on. Was wondering why the monitor wasn't detecting it
most important tip is not your documents folder or the %appdata%, is this: You will 100% forget something :) Keep your old pc somewhere for at least a couple of weeks before deciding it would be a nice experience to install arch on it - preferably somewhere connected to your network with remote desktop enabled - so that when you need that cv you had created using that old template and you need now you can turn on your old pc and get it :)
Is there a more direct method to transfer files? Like just use a USB cable to connect the two computers and copy directly from old to new, rather than copy old computer to external drive and then copy it all again from external drive to new computer? (more time saving process)
if you're moving to a new computer and want everything the exact same, you can use Macrium Reflect to make an image of your windows install, then just restore it on your new computer.
I'm a little confused. How do you have both drives open on your desktop so you can transfer files> Also it would help if you can slow down so someone can see better what you are doing.
Imaging disk to disk, or disk to image is always going to be faster than a normal copy and paste, due to how windows reads single files, Vs how a data image is created.
I'm kind a fan of just hooking up my old hard drive as a storage drive and moving things over from there... idk how it could be any simpler, plus you get an extra storage drive... or 3. always better to have too much data than to lose data!
A good rule to thumb: never ever store any personal data you can't afford to lose on C drive unless you (1) backed it up using your methods or (2) imaged the drive with Macrium Reflect. I try to make images of Windows 10 and Windows 11 on Intel and AMD hardware with all the drivers, apps, and updates every 6 months - a total of 4 disk images - so that I can just boot to a Macrium Rescue USB stick and deploy the relevant image as needed.
I've got all my computers setup to clone their system drives to backup drives every 48 hours during the wee hours of the night. Its so easy, and so well worth it. I use traditional HDDs because they are much better suited to the quantity of disc writes involved with frequent full disc backup, , although they are slower drives.
Excellent advice! I try to image my system disks at least once a month. And, what's really nice, is that you can mount the images as pseudo drives and dig through the file structure to restore specific files and folders. Say you web browser becomes corrupted, you can just replace its application data folder from a mounted backup. You're back in business with all of your plugins, bookmarks, and configuration intact. It's saved my bacon more times than I can count.
@@obsey I have my Macrium images stored on the root of a 3TB Seagate USB 3.0 + Hub. It also has my music and my life on it. My OS drives are 500gb SSDs with only about 20% file usage, so both the imaging and deploying goes by quick - 8 to 12 mins - and only take up 17GB to 24GB of space. Saves me a lot of time!
Yes. For full separation, store data on a second and/or third internal drive. When switching to a new system it's a simple matter of physically removing the data disk(s) from the old system, and installing them in the new one. That, and changing the references in any programs on the new system, that refer to a specific drive. Or copy the contents of the removed drives to the new system; external drive case. Then store the removed drives in a secure location, to be used as an off-site backup.
I consider myself somewhat of an advanced user and I loved this video. Sometimes it's easy to overlook some really basic steps and this covered everything well for all knowledge levels. Thank you for putting this together.
The one thing that really aggravates me is the new start menu because it's not at all customizable and I've always had a particular way how I want to have it look, I've got really every single link to all the programs that I installed on top of Windows plus some links to power user tools which are the built-in programs and then I have those nicely separated into a handful groups and I managed to get all that exactly fitting my screen so it's all there with one click on start and I don't have to scroll down to see stuff under the fold so to speak. I've done this the same way for years and years, in fact my computer is so organized that many people say that it's crazy because of the amount of work I've put into it, for example my music library I have all music sorted by using directories so it's like hard coded and can't be changed by any media player, I've first made a few directories to separate the genres but I've grouped genres together that are alike for example Trance, Dance, Techno in one group and R&B, Rap, Hip-Hop in another group and so on and got five main groups for the genres... Then for the next layer of directories I've got a separate directory for each year and extra directories for compilation albums and for artists... Then for the next layer of directories I've got the full discography of each artist and on chronological order also separated with directories... Yes I have a massive amount of music that I got from a DJ, all original CD's in the original cases with booklets and all still complete and undamaged stored away safely, and I've manually converted all that music into mp3's at the highest quality 320kbps and I even scanned the booklets to have the graphics showing on the mp3 when I play it, you can imagine how much time I've put into converting hundreds and hundreds of Audio CD's into high quality mp3 and why I stored it the way I did with directory trees. Ow and I have a separate 1 Tera Byte hard disk just for the music so when I open up my file explorer and go to the music drive and fold out the directory tree I have everything nicely organized just as I do with my start menu and I don't want to change how I use my computer on a fundamental level which is the case with Windows 11 with that stupid, horrible, idiot start menu that I can't customize anything on... You don't know how much I hate it, I'll tell ya... I hate it so much that I'm postponing the upgrade to Windows 11 as long as possible maybe even till 2025 when they stop the support and I have no other choice to upgrade but I hope that by that time there are more people like me making a fuzz about it and maybe we can customize it soon enough. And if not I'm going to make it my personal project and create some way to either revert to the Windows 10 look for the start menu at least and if that's not possible I'll make some sort of plugin or small software install that will give me the options that I want which shouldn't be a big problem to me because I know way too much about how Windows works since I've been customizing my Windows as long as I can remember. Since Windows Vista that most people hated... I loved it, well from that point on I've loved Windows because it always worked, it became more stable and I never had major crashes and for the most part it looked about the same, everything was located on a logic place, it just worked great the way it was since Windows Vista especially for the start menu and how we could customize it and now with the latest Windows 11 they messed it all up, they don't even have the cool live tiles anymore!?!? If I could I really would like to talk to the people at Microsoft who thought it was a good idea to change the start menu and make it look like what I hate the most of all, it looks like it comes from Apple and that's just wrong, if there's one thing I don't want it's that my desktop computer is going to look like an Apple and even worse it's going to work like an Apple.... 🤮🤮🤮🤮 Sorry for the rant, I couldn't help myself and had to write it down to get some kind of closure.
PCMover is an amazing utility to transfer from old to new, either via network cable or a mounted disk image. I needed a 64 bit version because of the sheer number of files on my old machine which broke their 32 bit version and their level 3 tech support/developer supplied a then beta and got it working. Highly recommended!
At 13:42 when you show the system the side radiator fans are set to exhaust.. I thought your tests showed the positive pressure setup (top, bottom, and side fans all intake) was best. Why did you change?
I had thought about testing that situation, but wouldn't it result in hotter CPU temps? You're blowing warm chassis air throigh the radiator instead of cool air if it was an intake.
I think using disk imaging software such as Acronis will reduce a lot of the manual legwork that you have to do unless your intention is to do a fresh install and minimize the bloat that gets transferred over to the new PC, but for most people, the process will be much less tedious and time consuming. Also, in terms of game save files, many games support Steam Cloud so it will simply pull the latest version from Valve's servers once you launch the game, which reduces the headache of finding where individual save files are located as they vary per game.
ONce the new PC is running fine I usually just plug all my old drives into the new motherboard and do all my copying and pasting from windows explorer. I'd rather go through SATA or PCIE to transfer a whole drive than a USB port.
i build a new system every year. I just do a completely fresh install. I have USB backups of everything I personally need but honestly I just hard on 3 1/2" by 5' cards my personal list of passwords to each cloud storage like RUclips that holds my info for that server. So that server doesn't get severed. RUclips, Amazon, etc. Plus I have Linux on a few USB sticks, so system on a stick just to piss off algorithms and giggle quietly to myself over a beer. Screw you net profile!
Whenever I build a machine I create C:, D:, and E: Drives. C: is currently a 1TB SSD that contains the OS, drivers, utilities etc. D: is a 2TB SSD that is used for programs and game installs only. E: is currently a RAID 1 (Mirror) of two 4TB HDD drives. Drive E is only for User data. I then change the location of all the Windows "Special Folders" to point to the proper drives, set up the backup software to backup Drive E: to the NAS nightly. Should I ever need to move the user data files, all I ever need to do is just do a disc clone of Drive E: to the new drive E:. Or download them from the previous nights backup on the NAS. I also keep the most recent copy of the program installation files in a directory on the NAS so that I can recover a D: partition quickly and also not forget about some little utility that I use everyday but forget the name or where I got it from.
Instead of a physical media, if you have the cables, can also just plug both into the network and transfer files PC to PC. That's what I did since I lacked anything big enough to move files.
5:51 About what you say here, is it a must to copy game folders or can you just download all your games on the new PC, log in on your account and be good to go?
I usually make a folder on the new PC called 'OldPC' for all those things that don't necessarily get copied elsewhere. Of course this means I now have that folder nested four times as it keeps on getting transferred to new PC's over the decades.
oh god.... all i wanted to know is how to transfer my Win 11 Pro license to a new computer. What you are doing is compicating everything. Just use a flash drive or external drive to save all personal files and medias. The rest is easy to reinstall over the internet... sheesh
or if you are on windows 10/11 simply remove your ssd, pop it in your new machine and boot (finally remove all old drivers in device manager by selecting view -> show hidden devices)
This is problematic when jumping from AMD to Intel (and vice versa) because even if you uninstall platform specific drivers after the SSD swap, Windows Update will turn around and still offer driver updates based on the old machine because the HAL was never reset. You'll need to use the "Reset This PC" option or clean install Windows.
@@bowlinbob6 If the NVME is formatted as GPT and you're using UEFI mode in the BIOS, it'll boot up to Windows on the new board. I was on an i5 4670k and when I moved my Samsung SSD over to the Ryzen rig I built in October, it booted into Windows 10 without issue. I removed everything Intel related, installed AMD chipset drivers, left it idle for a few days. Came back to Windows Update prompting me to install Intel LAN drivers and said, "Yup, I better install clean!" 😂
@@TogonzoMedia Very true, however it is a simple solution for most people. You can in fact edit the registry or run a batch script or even software to clean up the chipset drivers etc, just wanted to keep it simple. I certainly do this more often than I actually transfer but the 3rd solution is of course just to make a system image.
@@bowlinbob6 As of Windows 10 you can it just pops up "getting devices ready" and installs the drivers prior to booting system32.... Technically yes, however if you do switch to a Ryzen you will need to clean up the firmware (chipset drivers). To be fair once you boot from it you can just do a non destructive reset anyway so it's still super simple this way.
One nice thing about having a Microsoft 365 subscription is that all your files are backed up to One Drive. You can log in on the new PC and all your personal files are already there. You can choose to either download them all or just stream them in as needed. I also find it nice because I can be working on some Project on my desktop and pick up right where I left off on my laptop.
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if i back up my 1tb hdd onto an external usb, is it possible to also use google drive to store some data but on my new build do i need to buy a new windows key?
couldn't you do a little more compact information ? never knew you had to copy files first before moving them . While dragging files you can always choose between "replacing" or "Copy" ? Or files automatically "copy" to another location while dragging them .
I'm just trying to copy over personal files and it seems you can't transfer between 2 PC's using a USB cable without buying a particular product. Is this really a hardware limitation for PC and not a Windows thing? I'd love to know why.
Just a heads up when installing a new OS. Upon installation windows attaches existing HDDs to your OS. So if you remove those HDDs or swap them out later, it wont boot anymore. I wanted to swap one of my empty SSD to bigger SSD but it didn't boot anymore. So I had to keep all of them instead. Still not fully understanding the whole feature, but feel free to read more about it.
For personal data, outlook files etc I have a dedicated downloads drive and just save everything there directly so I don't need to do backups when I format my pc (something I do every 6 months or so) so I find this to be a very useful tip. I also do the same to my family's pc since I'm apparently the pc tech on call in my city :P
@@Josiuh I have a boatload of apps I'm running for work. All kinds of graphic and video editing stuff, coding and web design stuff, games etc etc etc, and my PC tends to get slower after some time and a fresh install cures it. Also I refuse to use antivirus or anti spyware stuff so it's for safety too. My system runs around 80TB of space and those apps try to police ALL of it.... All the time and slows it down even further
or, if you're using Linux: option 1: you want to keep the OS drive - you plug in the drive and add the boot option option2 : you want to use a different drive - use `dd` to copy the whole thing over, then set up the boot entry, then expand the partition(s) because of course the new drive is bigger
My case is different, as I have purchased a new computer with 2 TB of hard storage and 32 GB RAM. It's a powerful gaming computer (though I am not going to be using it for gaming, I'm a writer/illustrator, and narrator. So, though my old computer has the traditional 1 TB hard drive, my new computer has a 2 TB digital hard drive. So do you have any videos that can help me with this?
8:00 you for got to talk about the appdata folder for game saves and other app specific config and preferences files for those who don't use steam's lovely autobackup functionality.
Sure glad you produced this video! I will be setting up a new pc alongside my old one and have them both running - so once i get there, i will def be re-watching this. Thank you for this.
I stopped watching right here. 03:59 Because I want to back up all my files with just one click and not copying manually, Because I'm afraid to forget any important file. Thanks anyway.
New to this stuff, so pardon the newbie question....but why can't the old PC be the "portable drive", I mean a hard drive is a hard drive, right? So I why can't my new PC pull my stuff from my old PC instead of requiring a 3rd party portable drive?
Just to confirm, cause I’m getting a new build and gifting my mom my current build, would I need format the C: Drive and other drives so that it’s factory ready for her out of the box?
when I change my system from FX6300 to Ryzen 3600 without installing new OS I continue using the same old OS from the FX6300 system and now my System manager is showing Ryzen5 3600 Six core processor but expanding it there it shows 12 cores
How is just copying and pasting programs from old pc to new pc are going to work ? Some programs need to be properly installed. You can not just copy and paste them. This video was useless.
I know this is kind of off-topic but I thought you might know how I could fix this issue….My wife and I both have administrator privileges on our desktop ( we are the only users) but I keep getting messages that I don’t have access to my own files , mainly My Pictures, My Documents, My Music, etc. When I try to go into Properties and then Security to see what permissions I DO have, it appears that I have everything but “Special Permissions” and there is no way for me to check that box to add it. I have no idea how or when the changes came about but it was nothing I did on purpose and I doubt my wife would even know where to access the Properties box. HELP!!!
Yo Paul, I can see that you are well versed in Win10. I am NOT. To make matters worse, I was just forced into deploying this machine, (Win10) which I had put together over a year and a half ago because the monitor died on my Win7 machine, I don't drive and did not have a monitor for the Win10 machine. It's taking forever just to get the 'Basics' together with this machine, which is also starting to really get my temper flaring. The whole plan with me buying this case was that it can hold two drives, (my old machine is the same way). I was totally ready to put this slave drive from the old, to the new, only to find that supposedly Win10 HAS to Quick Format it after installation to recognize it. Is this so?? I also have a small, (5--Gb) 'Passport' drive that I used for the barebones back-up, (Family pics, Documents that include my first current home purchase, and music collection, mostly Prince raritys). When I booted this up it showed the drive was quite full but NOTHING showed. After watching a couple of videos I quickly found and Un-Hid ALL files and thankfully everything on the Passport appeared! Wouldn't the same thing happen for the internal drive?? If not would that Rig you used in this Video work for what I'm talking about too? Thanks so much for this post, ~Mark~
I'm putting a new hard drive in the wife's computer. Going to a digital drive. I assume I can just hook up new drive with a USB cord and back up to that, then install the backup drive into the computer, right? I don't see why not...
Is it a static PC / laptop? Follow this guide, it works well! Is it a modular PC / self-built? Just... unplug the storage device, plug it into the new pc...
Hi Paul, keep up the great content! I'm very happy with my alienware 3821dw monitor....sensible size / resolution compromise (38 inch, 3840x1600) nano ips, 120 hz (or 144 with chroma subsampling) gsync premium, good responsiveness and input lag, nice curve, well put together, overall great picture - just no complaints really other than price so just need to wait for a big dell sale....
Thx for the monitor info, do you happen to know what 42" Dell monitor his wife has? I have an iiyama 43" I really like, but I like to stay informed on which ones are good 😁
Hey cool, I didn't even know about the right-click and drag to move the files over to the new location. Even after using Windows for as long as it exists I'm still learning new things to this day.
Love your videos Paul. As another alternative, couldn't you just transfer all the file on to a second SSD/M.2 in the current pc and insert that into the new PC? On my last PC, I just pulled out the M.2 that contained my Windows 11 files and key and just dropped it in the new PC! I think I did a clean install at an early stage, but it worked in any case.
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My Mom got a new computer for her 92nd Birthday last week. She said she used the "onedrive thingy device" to move all of her stuffs. Then on the new computer she is installing the programs when she realizes she needs them. The first thing she get installed was roboform as her memory isn't what it used to be. I was really proud of her.
Holy shit dude, I would be super proud of her!
thats so cool
@@PurpleKnightmare they’re aren’t babies!
@@Johnnyy832 ???
I am a bit younger than your Mom, 65, and just love the fact she is 92 and still keeping up. I have been trying to decide if I even need a new computer and based on your story I have decided I do absolutely. Your Mom sounds like a fun lady I can understand your pride
Fun tip, holding Shift, while dragging to a new drive also switches to Move. When Move is the default, holding CTRL switches to Copy. I transfer files quite regularly and this is faster for me.
Nice tip! Only issue with move / cut is that if the files get corrupt in the migration you have no backup, hence why I always copy and paste.
@@zadekeys2194 that’s a good point
Thanks for that.
if you think that is handy, try Directory Opus. if you move files regularly, you'll love this.
I am a bit paranoid that I will move when I need to copy and vice versa and I never trust what windows/programs is considering default for drag and drop (move copy or make a shortcut) :D I always use right click
May have missed it mentioned but the hidden AppData folder in the User folder can contain important files, for example some games store their saves and/or settings there. Set file explorer to show hidden files to find it or search "%appdata%".
This is true. AppData and "LocalLow"
It still pisses me off that developers haven't settled on one standard for save data location, they go hiding your data in the most obscure directory and wonder why people have problems with their software.
I usually copy the entire user folder...Don't know why you would do it any other way. Unless your drive is failing maybe.
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It’s really easy to transfer. Just copy the c:\users\profile you are using and copy that whole folder and paste it to the new pc. Everything from docs to desktop will transfer. It even goes to the original destination. It will copy the local app data and roaming app data.
Honestly that lighting makes the video feel more...cozy and at home
"I'm in our computer room today and the lighting is not that great" says Paul, standing in the most majestically lit room imaginable.
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Is it so hard to make a tutorial video without rambling about nonsense. Stick to the tutorial like most successful video creators do.
This was serendipitous timing! Thanks, Paul!
This video was unhelpful. Anyone can do this. I needed help transferring files to my external hard drive when you can't access wins 10 when booting up.
Quick note 1) The shortcuts that were leftover after moving the files from the Desktop folder stayed because they were in the 'All Users' folder (a.k.a. C:\Users\Public) Many programs put their shortcut into this folder so they can appear across all user profiles on the PC. Like Paul said, they're usually disposable, but it's worth looking before you delete them.
If it is same operating system, just do a system image or just copy C: to external drive, then hand it to her and say here. LOL
Paul, I(and many of your subscribers and fans) love your content. Please keep making more! I know the last couple years of the state of the computer component industry have made things more challenging for tech tubers, but we are here to support you through views and merchandise purchases.
For my SSD, couldn't I just physically remove it and put it into my new computer? Or would it explode?
I am wondering the same thing
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Hi. If you're happy with your current drive and your old drive's compatible with your new pc, that's okay. Used to do it for my past 4 computers until now, because my new hard drive is faster, and physically different, so... 😊
No couse the drivers are different
My best advice is to plug all the old PCs drives into the new PC temporarily, then boot off that main drive. You can use a program like Acronis backup or similar that will allow you to copy an entire drive (even a boot drive) in their entirety. Your only snag might be if your board has only 1 m.2 and you’re upgrading, but that’s uncommon. You could always copy old m.2 to sata drive, the. Sata drive to new m.2. Upgrading my PCs m.2 from PCIe 3 to PCIe 4 took me only about 5 mins in setup, and whatever the transfer time was. Take the old drive out, boot off the new, good to go!
yeah or get a $20 m2 PCIe card
Im not to tech savvy, i was going to get another PC without OS/drives etc and just move my old SSD/NVME across...would that work ?
@@catlee8064 Oh that’s the easiest way. This video and my comment only apply if you are changing boot drives.
@@catlee8064 Umm. Not so much. back up everything apart from OS on USB. Easy to get even a 240Gb USB for under $20. Hell I turned one into an ear ring as a fashion statement. But do a clean install and install clean new drivers for MB Video drivers updated everything drivers, basically new driver for every single new piece of hardware in your system. And the software to best interface with that system. Without more info that's your best bet. I mean you haven't even said if going from Intel to AMD. But even Intel to Intel a fresh new install is ALWAYS your best bet.
I kinda did that when I got a new 2tb ssd instead of my old hdd. Only I never got around to actually plugging out the old one, so now I have to figure out how to save all my possibly dublicated data.... Sigh.
I have found the tools, just not the motivation
The is a very good tutorial and I have recommended it to a friend who lives a couple of hundred miles away, who has bought a windows 10 Laptop. The only issue I have with with this tutorial, is that it is almost impossible to read any of the file or folder names, as you move though explaining the process. Next time you do something similar, I would recommend using the Windows scaling feature to make text and screen objects larger. This will make your tutorials much easier to view and comprehend.
Oh , was never this early before.
caught you off guard there ey?
David Cross is that you? The guy from Alvin and the Chipmunks
ive came to the conclusion it will take me multiple hours to do this cuz nothing is organized 😂
Ninite is a useful utility for downloading a number of programs easily, I think Linus recommended it
When I first built my PC about 4 years ago now, I had only a 128 GB boot SSD and a 1 TB HDD so I mapped my docs, music, videos, and Steam games onto D: instead of C: and it definitely came in handy when I had to RMA my SSD. Then when I had to reformat my boot drive again for whatever reason I had everything backed up already. Steam games especially saved me plenty of time not having to download everything again.
will this transfer my windows 10 account? I do NOT want windows 11!
Man I literally just finished building a new PC for myself today and I've not been looking forward to having to move everything over... excellent timing on this vid sir!
Not for me. I did it Sunday lmao
Just copy data over the network
Why not use the Macrium Reflect software application to clone the contents of the drives in the old computer onto the drives that will be in the new computer? Of course, new software license keys will need to added, especially for Windows and MSFT Office and such, but that too is easy. Cloning drive contents with Macrium Reflect is a much more efficient approach to this task, one I've done many, many times, than copying files by hand.
@@obsey fresh is best, cloning is quick and easy but can cause problems down the track
@@holdenman8850 Are you "serious"? A clone is an "exact" sector clone. Unless a "old" computer is absurdly old, a clone is a far better way to avoid problems than the gazillions of pitfalls in trying to copy individual files and folders by hand, possibly creating disasters like skipping essential files / folders on an historical disc. Even for a system drive, a simple trip to the Device Manager is the way to clean up, verify correctness of, and updated it device software. this is the way to avoid problems, the infinite potential problems than can result from hand copying files / folders, especially by using the File Explorer GUI. The video above, just was not very good advice at all, imo.
Awsomeeee! Thanks!!!! Have my old PC and sooop torn between using the new GPU and CPU in it as an overhaul till I do a platform swap with am6, OR IF I just build a new am4 system for fashion and have 2 great systems to nerd out for 2 years till am6 orrrrr go for a am5 enthusiast build and stressing and oc fun and then upgrade CPU for 8000 ryzen or wait till like 10000 series or w/e 5 years later hah. Any upgrade is massive, but I think I have the money and will enjoy the build fun and power way more even if it's a waste of money. Just such a hard choice cause if I don't salvage the 5 year old build which is safer, I'll need a full gear up anyway at which point am5 is way more cost effective even tho I bought a 5800x3d~ my current PC is BAD at fitting a tower cooler for it so I might need a stock cooler and 5600x for my old system to get another 5 years out of my 1080 casually and just do a perfect tier am4 build with it, sell it to someone from r most money back, or just keep it as a 300$ paper weight for stupidity and build am5 anyway with 7800x3d idk XD good thing is once new system is up and perfect, I can spend years modifying old system to fit or push 5800x3d even with an aio and just have fun for once
Is there a way to recover my old Pc's SSD n' HDD data to my new PC,even if the old PC's death was the reason I bought a new pc?
NAH, it’s much easier, especially if you got a brand new computer to just do your fresh install of windows, then once you have all your drivers and updates done, toss in the old SSD and you can just drag and drop documents, photos, music. Etc. game saves. Why do three steps if you could just do on and take half the time? :)
You forgot about winget! Really fast way to see what you've got installed, and it will even pull what it can from the internet automatically if you import the file on the new machine.
winget export -o export.txt
By default it saves to C:\Users\, but you can change the path.
I need to have word, Excell and outlook transferred. I don't have my old computer. But the guy did copy everything on an external drive. Will I just do the same steps like you mentioned? I don't want to have to buy the windows programs all over again since the old computer mother board died :(
But I am already subscribed
7:24 I think that's for 3D modeler but wait even 3D modeler never store their 3D models in there.. uhm IDK why is that there anymore LOL
I.most definitely did it wrong then. I just unplugged the ssd from my old one and plugged into my new pc and turned it on. Was wondering why the monitor wasn't detecting it
Iv had 5 pc 4 smartphone and not once have i transferred over anything xD Everything dies alone and unused on the old device
💪😤🤙 muahauahaaha
You look like the dude from alvin n the chipmunks 😂 subbed
LMAO FR
can I transfer my internal hdd to my new pc without losing the data in it?
most important tip is not your documents folder or the %appdata%, is this:
You will 100% forget something :) Keep your old pc somewhere for at least a couple of weeks before deciding it would be a nice experience to install arch on it - preferably somewhere connected to your network with remote desktop enabled - so that when you need that cv you had created using that old template and you need now you can turn on your old pc and get it :)
Microsoft does not make people's life easier.... Look how iPhone upgrades from old to new.... Damn.
my PC is so old , i want to upgrade but i dont want to lose my old DATA :(
i want that everything is 1:1 on the new PC
THERE A BACKUP OPTION TO CLICK IN WINDOWS TO DO ALL THIS WITH ONE CLICK. THIS VIDEO IS A VERY LONG MANUAL UNNECCESARY WAY OF DOING IT.
Whatever happened to just rigging up a crossover ethernet cable?
I love transferring 253,766 items from disk C to D so I can do an easier transfer
Is there a more direct method to transfer files? Like just use a USB cable to connect the two computers and copy directly from old to new, rather than copy old computer to external drive and then copy it all again from external drive to new computer? (more time saving process)
Horrible that Windows still has no built in backup solution as intuitive and easy to use as Apples TimeMachine
if you're moving to a new computer and want everything the exact same, you can use Macrium Reflect to make an image of your windows install, then just restore it on your new computer.
will this allow me to keep my windows 10 account on a computer with windows 11 pre-installed ???
I'm a little confused. How do you have both drives open on your desktop so you can transfer files> Also it would help if you can slow down so someone can see better what you are doing.
That was completely useless as a guide. it felt like 15 minutes of my life wasted
Thanks for mentioning WinDirStat! Do you know any program that can look for duplicate files? I have backups of backups of different ages.
Re: monitors - the 32" acer predator 144hz 4k monitor gets good reviews.. and it's on sale at microcenter (here, at least).
Wouldn't it be easier to just copy the user folder? It would have all of the data and all the folders in it. Rather than copying one by one.
Imaging disk to disk, or disk to image is always going to be faster than a normal copy and paste, due to how windows reads single files, Vs how a data image is created.
Hey, recently my PC died so I bought a new one. I was wondering if I need to do any extra steps to install my old SSD or if I just have to put it in
I'm kind a fan of just hooking up my old hard drive as a storage drive and moving things over from there... idk how it could be any simpler, plus you get an extra storage drive... or 3.
always better to have too much data than to lose data!
I use an Aorus FV43 for both work and gaming, it is the best all around monitor 43" 4k 144hz
Awww, she's a WoW player. My condolences
A good rule to thumb: never ever store any personal data you can't afford to lose on C drive unless you (1) backed it up using your methods or (2) imaged the drive with Macrium Reflect. I try to make images of Windows 10 and Windows 11 on Intel and AMD hardware with all the drivers, apps, and updates every 6 months - a total of 4 disk images - so that I can just boot to a Macrium Rescue USB stick and deploy the relevant image as needed.
I've got all my computers setup to clone their system drives to backup drives every 48 hours during the wee hours of the night. Its so easy, and so well worth it. I use traditional HDDs because they are much better suited to the quantity of disc writes involved with frequent full disc backup, , although they are slower drives.
Excellent advice! I try to image my system disks at least once a month. And, what's really nice, is that you can mount the images as pseudo drives and dig through the file structure to restore specific files and folders. Say you web browser becomes corrupted, you can just replace its application data folder from a mounted backup. You're back in business with all of your plugins, bookmarks, and configuration intact. It's saved my bacon more times than I can count.
@@obsey I have my Macrium images stored on the root of a 3TB Seagate USB 3.0 + Hub. It also has my music and my life on it. My OS drives are 500gb SSDs with only about 20% file usage, so both the imaging and deploying goes by quick - 8 to 12 mins - and only take up 17GB to 24GB of space. Saves me a lot of time!
Yes. For full separation, store data on a second and/or third internal drive. When switching to a new system it's a simple matter of physically removing the data disk(s) from the old system, and installing them in the new one. That, and changing the references in any programs on the new system, that refer to a specific drive.
Or copy the contents of the removed drives to the new system; external drive case. Then store the removed drives in a secure location, to be used as an off-site backup.
I consider myself somewhat of an advanced user and I loved this video. Sometimes it's easy to overlook some really basic steps and this covered everything well for all knowledge levels.
Thank you for putting this together.
The one thing that really aggravates me is the new start menu because it's not at all customizable and I've always had a particular way how I want to have it look, I've got really every single link to all the programs that I installed on top of Windows plus some links to power user tools which are the built-in programs and then I have those nicely separated into a handful groups and I managed to get all that exactly fitting my screen so it's all there with one click on start and I don't have to scroll down to see stuff under the fold so to speak.
I've done this the same way for years and years, in fact my computer is so organized that many people say that it's crazy because of the amount of work I've put into it, for example my music library I have all music sorted by using directories so it's like hard coded and can't be changed by any media player, I've first made a few directories to separate the genres but I've grouped genres together that are alike for example Trance, Dance, Techno in one group and R&B, Rap, Hip-Hop in another group and so on and got five main groups for the genres...
Then for the next layer of directories I've got a separate directory for each year and extra directories for compilation albums and for artists...
Then for the next layer of directories I've got the full discography of each artist and on chronological order also separated with directories...
Yes I have a massive amount of music that I got from a DJ, all original CD's in the original cases with booklets and all still complete and undamaged stored away safely, and I've manually converted all that music into mp3's at the highest quality 320kbps and I even scanned the booklets to have the graphics showing on the mp3 when I play it, you can imagine how much time I've put into converting hundreds and hundreds of Audio CD's into high quality mp3 and why I stored it the way I did with directory trees.
Ow and I have a separate 1 Tera Byte hard disk just for the music so when I open up my file explorer and go to the music drive and fold out the directory tree I have everything nicely organized just as I do with my start menu and I don't want to change how I use my computer on a fundamental level which is the case with Windows 11 with that stupid, horrible, idiot start menu that I can't customize anything on... You don't know how much I hate it, I'll tell ya... I hate it so much that I'm postponing the upgrade to Windows 11 as long as possible maybe even till 2025 when they stop the support and I have no other choice to upgrade but I hope that by that time there are more people like me making a fuzz about it and maybe we can customize it soon enough.
And if not I'm going to make it my personal project and create some way to either revert to the Windows 10 look for the start menu at least and if that's not possible I'll make some sort of plugin or small software install that will give me the options that I want which shouldn't be a big problem to me because I know way too much about how Windows works since I've been customizing my Windows as long as I can remember.
Since Windows Vista that most people hated... I loved it, well from that point on I've loved Windows because it always worked, it became more stable and I never had major crashes and for the most part it looked about the same, everything was located on a logic place, it just worked great the way it was since Windows Vista especially for the start menu and how we could customize it and now with the latest Windows 11 they messed it all up, they don't even have the cool live tiles anymore!?!?
If I could I really would like to talk to the people at Microsoft who thought it was a good idea to change the start menu and make it look like what I hate the most of all, it looks like it comes from Apple and that's just wrong, if there's one thing I don't want it's that my desktop computer is going to look like an Apple and even worse it's going to work like an Apple.... 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Sorry for the rant, I couldn't help myself and had to write it down to get some kind of closure.
PCMover is an amazing utility to transfer from old to new, either via network cable or a mounted disk image. I needed a 64 bit version because of the sheer number of files on my old machine which broke their 32 bit version and their level 3 tech support/developer supplied a then beta and got it working. Highly recommended!
You can combine steps 1&2 by getting a copy of cloning software and make a clone of one or both drives to the new drive(s).
At 13:42 when you show the system the side radiator fans are set to exhaust.. I thought your tests showed the positive pressure setup (top, bottom, and side fans all intake) was best. Why did you change?
I had thought about testing that situation, but wouldn't it result in hotter CPU temps? You're blowing warm chassis air throigh the radiator instead of cool air if it was an intake.
I think using disk imaging software such as Acronis will reduce a lot of the manual legwork that you have to do unless your intention is to do a fresh install and minimize the bloat that gets transferred over to the new PC, but for most people, the process will be much less tedious and time consuming. Also, in terms of game save files, many games support Steam Cloud so it will simply pull the latest version from Valve's servers once you launch the game, which reduces the headache of finding where individual save files are located as they vary per game.
The fact that its almost 2023 and this process is STILL this tedious say a lot.
you’d think it’d be easier cuz greedy corporations and more sells…I’m surprised 🤣
ONce the new PC is running fine I usually just plug all my old drives into the new motherboard and do all my copying and pasting from windows explorer. I'd rather go through SATA or PCIE to transfer a whole drive than a USB port.
i build a new system every year. I just do a completely fresh install. I have USB backups of everything I personally need but honestly I just hard on 3 1/2" by 5' cards my personal list of passwords to each cloud storage like RUclips that holds my info for that server. So that server doesn't get severed. RUclips, Amazon, etc. Plus I have Linux on a few USB sticks, so system on a stick just to piss off algorithms and giggle quietly to myself over a beer. Screw you net profile!
Heck my (ex)husband doesn't even know how to turn a computer on! Is your father single?
Whenever I build a machine I create C:, D:, and E: Drives. C: is currently a 1TB SSD that contains the OS, drivers, utilities etc. D: is a 2TB SSD that is used for programs and game installs only. E: is currently a RAID 1 (Mirror) of two 4TB HDD drives. Drive E is only for User data.
I then change the location of all the Windows "Special Folders" to point to the proper drives, set up the backup software to backup Drive E: to the NAS nightly. Should I ever need to move the user data files, all I ever need to do is just do a disc clone of Drive E: to the new drive E:. Or download them from the previous nights backup on the NAS.
I also keep the most recent copy of the program installation files in a directory on the NAS so that I can recover a D: partition quickly and also not forget about some little utility that I use everyday but forget the name or where I got it from.
Not going to lie, I really enjoyed the lighting in the beginning when you stated you thought it was poor conditions.
My Linux guy failed.
I NEED a new Linux guy.
so you made a video of how to copy paste files and folders in windows and got 100k views? in what galaxy did i wake up today ?
You'd be surprised at how many people don't know how to do that.
Instead of a physical media, if you have the cables, can also just plug both into the network and transfer files PC to PC. That's what I did since I lacked anything big enough to move files.
10:21 me with 3 mbits/s
5:51 About what you say here, is it a must to copy game folders or can you just download all your games on the new PC, log in on your account and be good to go?
Depends. Steam usually syncs any game files with the cloud, but some games may store data locally that isn't synced despite being on Steam
I usually make a folder on the new PC called 'OldPC' for all those things that don't necessarily get copied elsewhere. Of course this means I now have that folder nested four times as it keeps on getting transferred to new PC's over the decades.
oh god.... all i wanted to know is how to transfer my Win 11 Pro license to a new computer.
What you are doing is compicating everything. Just use a flash drive or external drive to save all personal files and medias.
The rest is easy to reinstall over the internet...
sheesh
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These corporate greed videos be killing my soul
Man, I needed this video back in October, but I'm still here to support the channel my guy
or if you are on windows 10/11 simply remove your ssd, pop it in your new machine and boot (finally remove all old drivers in device manager by selecting view -> show hidden devices)
This is problematic when jumping from AMD to Intel (and vice versa) because even if you uninstall platform specific drivers after the SSD swap, Windows Update will turn around and still offer driver updates based on the old machine because the HAL was never reset. You'll need to use the "Reset This PC" option or clean install Windows.
@@bowlinbob6 If the NVME is formatted as GPT and you're using UEFI mode in the BIOS, it'll boot up to Windows on the new board. I was on an i5 4670k and when I moved my Samsung SSD over to the Ryzen rig I built in October, it booted into Windows 10 without issue. I removed everything Intel related, installed AMD chipset drivers, left it idle for a few days. Came back to Windows Update prompting me to install Intel LAN drivers and said, "Yup, I better install clean!" 😂
@@TogonzoMedia Very true, however it is a simple solution for most people. You can in fact edit the registry or run a batch script or even software to clean up the chipset drivers etc, just wanted to keep it simple. I certainly do this more often than I actually transfer but the 3rd solution is of course just to make a system image.
@@bowlinbob6 As of Windows 10 you can it just pops up "getting devices ready" and installs the drivers prior to booting system32.... Technically yes, however if you do switch to a Ryzen you will need to clean up the firmware (chipset drivers). To be fair once you boot from it you can just do a non destructive reset anyway so it's still super simple this way.
I am in this process with a new build. I would recommend cloning instead. No hastle as everything is as it was on your old pc and so much less time.
One nice thing about having a Microsoft 365 subscription is that all your files are backed up to One Drive. You can log in on the new PC and all your personal files are already there. You can choose to either download them all or just stream them in as needed. I also find it nice because I can be working on some Project on my desktop and pick up right where I left off on my laptop.
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if i
back up my 1tb hdd onto
an external usb, is it possible to also use google drive to
store some data but on my new build do
i need to buy a new windows key?
Your question is a bit confusing. Google drive has nothing to do with the data that's on your external usb drive.
couldn't you do a little more compact information ? never knew you had to copy files first before moving them .
While dragging files you can always choose between "replacing" or "Copy" ?
Or files automatically "copy" to another location while dragging them .
I'm just trying to copy over personal files and it seems you can't transfer between 2 PC's using a USB cable without buying a particular product.
Is this really a hardware limitation for PC and not a Windows thing? I'd love to know why.
Just a heads up when installing a new OS. Upon installation windows attaches existing HDDs to your OS. So if you remove those HDDs or swap them out later, it wont boot anymore. I wanted to swap one of my empty SSD to bigger SSD but it didn't boot anymore. So I had to keep all of them instead. Still not fully understanding the whole feature, but feel free to read more about it.
Thanks for hte heads up. I am new at this migration.
For personal data, outlook files etc I have a dedicated downloads drive and just save everything there directly so I don't need to do backups when I format my pc (something I do every 6 months or so) so I find this to be a very useful tip. I also do the same to my family's pc since I'm apparently the pc tech on call in my city :P
Hi just curious...why do you reformat every 6 months?
@@Josiuh I have a boatload of apps I'm running for work. All kinds of graphic and video editing stuff, coding and web design stuff, games etc etc etc, and my PC tends to get slower after some time and a fresh install cures it. Also I refuse to use antivirus or anti spyware stuff so it's for safety too. My system runs around 80TB of space and those apps try to police ALL of it.... All the time and slows it down even further
@@greaper1976 thank you
or, if you're using Linux:
option 1: you want to keep the OS drive
- you plug in the drive and add the boot option
option2 : you want to use a different drive
- use `dd` to copy the whole thing over, then set up the boot entry, then expand the partition(s) because of course the new drive is bigger
So i can just move the drive from my old pc? Bcs i won‘t need him anymore
My case is different, as I have purchased a new computer with 2 TB of hard storage and 32 GB RAM. It's a powerful gaming computer (though I am not going to be using it for gaming, I'm a writer/illustrator, and narrator. So, though my old computer has the traditional 1 TB hard drive, my new computer has a 2 TB digital hard drive. So do you have any videos that can help me with this?
8:00 you for got to talk about the appdata folder for game saves and other app specific config and preferences files for those who don't use steam's lovely autobackup functionality.
Sure glad you produced this video! I will be setting up a new pc alongside my old one and have them both running - so once i get there, i will def be re-watching this. Thank you for this.
I stopped watching right here. 03:59
Because I want to back up all my files with just one click and not copying manually, Because I'm afraid to forget any important file.
Thanks anyway.
New to this stuff, so pardon the newbie question....but why can't the old PC be the "portable drive", I mean a hard drive is a hard drive, right? So I why can't my new PC pull my stuff from my old PC instead of requiring a 3rd party portable drive?
Just to confirm, cause I’m getting a new build and gifting my mom my current build, would I need format the C: Drive and other drives so that it’s factory ready for her out of the box?
I'm LITERALLY building a new rig TOMORROW .... PERFECT timing
when I change my system from FX6300 to Ryzen 3600 without installing new OS I continue using the same old OS from the FX6300 system and now my System manager is showing Ryzen5 3600 Six core processor but expanding it there it shows 12 cores
How is just copying and pasting programs from old pc to new pc are going to work ? Some programs need to be properly installed. You can not just copy and paste them. This video was useless.
I know this is kind of off-topic but I thought you might know how I could fix this issue….My wife and I both have administrator privileges on our desktop ( we are the only users) but I keep getting messages that I don’t have access to my own files , mainly My Pictures, My Documents, My Music, etc. When I try to go into Properties and then Security to see what permissions I DO have, it appears that I have everything but “Special Permissions” and there is no way for me to check that box to add it. I have no idea how or when the changes came about but it was nothing I did on purpose and I doubt my wife would even know where to access the Properties box. HELP!!!
That lighting wasn't bad at all...when I record inside my apartment, it's so orange my videos become grainy.
Yo Paul, I can see that you are well versed in Win10. I am NOT. To make matters worse, I was just forced into deploying this machine, (Win10) which I had put together over a year and a half ago because the monitor died on my Win7 machine, I don't drive and did not have a monitor for the Win10 machine. It's taking forever just to get the 'Basics' together with this machine, which is also starting to really get my temper flaring. The whole plan with me buying this case was that it can hold two drives, (my old machine is the same way). I was totally ready to put this slave drive from the old, to the new, only to find that supposedly Win10 HAS to Quick Format it after installation to recognize it. Is this so??
I also have a small, (5--Gb) 'Passport' drive that I used for the barebones back-up, (Family pics, Documents that include my first current home purchase, and music collection, mostly Prince raritys). When I booted this up it showed the drive was quite full but NOTHING showed. After watching a couple of videos I quickly found and Un-Hid ALL files and thankfully everything on the Passport appeared! Wouldn't the same thing happen for the internal drive?? If not would that Rig you used in this Video work for what I'm talking about too? Thanks so much for this post, ~Mark~
I'm putting a new hard drive in the wife's computer. Going to a digital drive. I assume I can just hook up new drive with a USB cord and back up to that, then install the backup drive into the computer, right? I don't see why not...
Is it a static PC / laptop? Follow this guide, it works well!
Is it a modular PC / self-built? Just... unplug the storage device, plug it into the new pc...
You are talking WAYYY over my head.. Help me better by explaining things like I'm stupid.... Which I am; computer-wise..
Hi Paul, keep up the great content!
I'm very happy with my alienware 3821dw monitor....sensible size / resolution compromise (38 inch, 3840x1600) nano ips, 120 hz (or 144 with chroma subsampling) gsync premium, good responsiveness and input lag, nice curve, well put together, overall great picture - just no complaints really other than price so just need to wait for a big dell sale....
Thx for the monitor info, do you happen to know what 42" Dell monitor his wife has?
I have an iiyama 43" I really like, but I like to stay informed on which ones are good 😁
Hey cool, I didn't even know about the right-click and drag to move the files over to the new location. Even after using Windows for as long as it exists I'm still learning new things to this day.
Colin Robinson just saved me! New system coming tomorrow so cheers for this 🙏
Love your videos Paul. As another alternative, couldn't you just transfer all the file on to a second SSD/M.2 in the current pc and insert that into the new PC?
On my last PC, I just pulled out the M.2 that contained my Windows 11 files and key and just dropped it in the new PC! I think I did a clean install at an early stage, but it worked in any case.