Backing up data from Old PC

[congo9]

Brothers here, i have a question to ask.

I wanted to change to a new PC. My old PC is creeky and not working well. I also don't know my old mother board can support new video card. My PC is a self assembled PC. Nowadays the card is 512mb minimum.

I wanted to change to a new PC , but one problem here. Some of my important email is at the outlook express. I want to shift all the data from the out look express to my new PC or laptop, including address and messages. How do i do it ?

How do i know if my old mother booard can support 512mb video card ? Any advises ?

 

[Ramseth]

Just use Files and Settings Transfer and load them onto a thumbdrive.

 

[hotbot]

wahaha...just swap the harddisk. btw, parallel or serial ata? if not compatible, can use converter,can buy from sim lim.

for graphic card, never heard of any bottleneck before??? just make sure it's agp or pci express.

Just use Files and Settings Transfer and load them onto a thumbdrive.

 

[johnny333]

Why not just back up onto a CDR

 

[motormafia]

Brothers here, i have a question to ask.

I wanted to change to a new PC. My old PC is creeky and not working well. I also don't know my old mother board can support new video card. My PC is a self assembled PC. Nowadays the card is 512mb minimum.

I wanted to change to a new PC , but one problem here. Some of my important email is at the outlook express. I want to shift all the data from the out look express to my new PC or laptop, including address and messages. How do i do it ?

How do i know if my old mother booard can support 512mb video card ? Any advises ?

The MOST EFFICIENT & time saving way is to get ready the new PC and then remove the old HDD from the old PC temporarily and connected in the new PC to transfer data over, then removed.

That way video card memory size etc are not any factor of limitation nor constrain. You may bring that to a computer shop and pay a little fee for the experienced technician to help you do that. It can be done on the spot as you wait.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Get the new HD 6000 series amd gpu cards used to be called ati last time. Or else you can wait for nvidia's gtx 500 series to come out.

I personally own a 5970 OC edition and it can play dx11 games on win7. Although my cpu isn't that good but it's still pretty fine.

Oh yes get a 1TB hdd or else get a faster hdd than the normal 7200 rpm like SSD or raptor hdds. Get a 64 bit OS so that you can use more ram. Get a core i7 or i5 motherboard and cpu too. Also get win 7 you don't need to buy it. You'll be pretty updated.

 

[silverfox@]

Brothers here, i have a question to ask.

I wanted to change to a new PC. My old PC is creeky and not working well. I also don't know my old mother board can support new video card. My PC is a self assembled PC. Nowadays the card is 512mb minimum.

I wanted to change to a new PC , but one problem here. Some of my important email is at the outlook express. I want to shift all the data from the out look express to my new PC or laptop, including address and messages. How do i do it ?

How do i know if my old mother booard can support 512mb video card ? Any advises ?

If because of your emails in your outlook, and you think you can't change your com and have difficulty upgrading specs, then very bad decision because if 5 years down the road, your com spoils, you will have a harder time finding hardware parts.

Your only problem is emails in outlook and also the addresses. So you export all your data in outlook via this export function and save it in pst format.

Your new computer, you install outlook and then import this pst file over. You get a new computer, new outlook with all your emails and addresses.

 

[silverfox@]

wahaha...just swap the harddisk. btw, parallel or serial ata? if not compatible, can use converter,can buy from sim lim.

for graphic card, never heard of any bottleneck before??? just make sure it's agp or pci express.

AGP is going to be obsolete.

 

[Frankiestine]

Go to option/maintenance/store folder and find where the emails are store. Copy down the location and open up the folder. Copy all the files and then in new pc create a new folder and paste. Then in new PC open outlook and then under files click on import and look for the new folder just created. All previous emails should be now installed in new pc.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

AGP is going to be obsolete.

Obviously that fella should swap it to a SATA hdd. He can also swap it to a external hdd but i think his pc probably has usb1.0 only. A bit slow but still it's doable.

 

[Baimi]

About 6 months ago, i upgraded my pc from 40GB HDD
to 160GB, so it will be tediuos to transfer everything into the
new HDD. So i used a clone software to do it.
Clone everything from the old HDD, it even split 50-50
to C and D drive just like the old.
When it was first introduce it got one month free trail.
Now no more free cloning.
http://download.cnet.com/Acronis-True-Image-Home/3000-2242_4-10168093.html

 

[Leongsam]

How do i know if my old mother booard can support 512mb video card ? Any advises ?

Should be "Any ADVICE?".

"Advise" is a verb.