Transfer from pc to laptop without loss of data

[CHARLITO]

Hey all,

You guys helped me out with a virus problem before and did a heck of a job! So rather than coming to you later with a problem, I would rather ask advice before I mess something up.

I have an Acer Aspire T130 - J97L(basic stock model running XP Home) that is under warranty so I need to ship it to a technician to change the DVD drive. What I want to do is copy or transfer all my settings and data to a new laptop( Jump Ordenadores, XP home edition) just in case. It looks to have all the same space as my pc so that isn't my worry. I want ask what is the best way to transfer this data, if I can, because I'm afraid to lose something and don't want to mess up the very little bit of stuff or copy-over the programs I have saved on the laptop.

Stupid question? Maybe but better safe than sorry in my case. I bought a CAT5e Cross Over cable so I hope that works. If not, I'm sure I'll find some use for it down the road. Any insight would be great. Thanks, Charlito

[bAdWaYz]

If you just want to transfer some files/folders then that crossover cable will do the trick but if you want the new computer to look and feel just like the old one you could use something like drive image or ghost to ghost an image of the hard drive then load it up on the new computer. Thats the way the pros do it when they have a large number of computers with the same spec's and they want all of them to look and feel the same. Plus its faster than installing an OS from scratch.

[skyrider]

or you could all ways use the ip of the computer you wont to take the files from and enter it in to your run with the " \\**.**.*.*** /c$ " way