gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » transfer data http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Disk Copy Software PC Network Clonehttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/09/disk-copy-software-pc-network-clone/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/09/disk-copy-software-pc-network-clone/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:44:59 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5993 If you got a new hard disk or new computer you might want to copy the contents of the old hard drive to the new one to continue working with all of your files, operating system and settings. PC Network Clone is a disk copy software that can copy the contents of a hard drive to one or multiple other drives that are connected to each other over a network.

The Home Edition can copy the contents of a hard disk to up to three client computers with a maximum speed of up to 9 Gigabytes per minute which should be more than enough for home usage. It does have some other limitations in place: Only IDE and SATA hard disks are supported but files can be copied from all filesystems.

The professional disk copy version has a wider range of supported hardware (Firewire, USB..), an almost 7 times higher transfer rate maximum and a maximum client limit of 20.

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Technically a Linux Live CD is used to boot the source PC and distribute the data to the other hard disks. Those can be on the same computer or on computers connected over the network.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/09/disk-copy-software-pc-network-clone/feed/ 1 Laplink PC Mover Promotionhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/16/laplink-pc-mover-promotion/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/16/laplink-pc-mover-promotion/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:29:28 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5001 A problem that many users will face when they buy a new computer is that they have to find a way to migrate the data from the old computer to the new one. It is not only about the applications that have been installed but even more about the settings and other data like emails, images or documents that accumulate over time.

One way to migrate from an old computer to a new one is to use a software that can do the heavy lifting and Laplink PC Mover is without doubt one of the best programs for that. First of all it’s compatible to all Microsoft operating systems starting with Windows 95 including Windows NT, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

The transfer of the data can be initiated over network, removable media, flash drives, usb cables and even parallel cables. One of the easiest ways to migrate the data would be to use a network connection or USB 2.0 cable.

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Key Features of Laplink PC Mover:

  • Complete Migration – Transfer everything with minimal user interaction.
  • Application Selectivity – Select the applications that should be moved to the new computer.
  • Folder & File Selectivity – Select folders and files that should be moved
  • Move User Accounts – User accounts can be moved to the new computer.
  • No Overwriting – Existing Data on the new PC will not be altered in any way.
  • Exclude Files / Folders / File Types from being migrated

I can definitely recommend this software to migrate data from an old PC to a new one. I still prefer to install the applications anew on the new computer instead of using a migration software but it could come in handy for users who want to speed up the migration and do not want to download, install and configure all the applications again.

Just visit (via Techtrends) the PC Mover promotional website. register an account and download the software.

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