Please Answer. How can I transfer files from old to new computer, read additional details below.?

I have a computer Pentium 2 (Windows ME), and Pentium 4 (Windows XP Service Pack 2), how do I transfer files from Windows ME to Windows XP, I have a Serial USB Cable|||1) You can but an data transfer software, but might cost you what uses a usb connection.





2) You can buy an external hard drive and drag and drop the file off your old PC to the drive and they put then on your new pc, might cost more then the data transfer software. If you don鈥檛 fell like spend the money there is a trick u can do if you have a staples store near by or even their website. You can buy one use it and return it because they have a 2 week period that if you don鈥檛 like the item you can return it for a full refund with no fees, but before buy ask them if I don鈥檛 like it can it be returned for a full refund and when you return I say it was not to your likening for any reason.





3) if you have a network port or NIC connection on both PC you can buy a patch cable and make a peer too peer connect and transfer the files then, but will take time and have to know a bit on networking.





You can email me if you need more info or help, good luck|||WINME use FAT32 and XP uses NTFS, they are not compatible, put the drive from the ME, into the XP machine, then use the conversion utilities, to convert the FAT32 files to NTFS.|||Invest in an external hard drive. Copy all your data o the external then transfer to the new. OR burn a DVD with all your data on it|||Simply get a USB memory card.|||No one has suggested the slowest, most painful method of all - using a floppy disk!





If you have a 'serial' USB cable, then you are saying it's USB on one end and a Serial (25 pin?) connection on the other?





Can you tell your ME machine to share the hard drive with external computers? Can you get your XP machine to recognize the hard drive in the ME machine? IF you can, then you can copy the files over directly. If you cannot, then you have to use an intermediary device - floppy, thumb drive, external hard drive...





Are these files so valuable to you that it's worth the time and aggravation you will go through? If so, then have at it. Otherwise, just keep the two machines and enjoy them.|||Use a USB Pen drive.... and copy the files from one computer to another!|||I would use ghost 9 *** after converting files from fat 32 to ntfs... its a simple matter of attaching the old hdd * temporarily to the new pc and copying files to new hdd...