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Old Laptop suggestions
So I was bored and dug out my old laptop to see what I can do with it. I started it and it works perfectly. I replaced it with a dell 3 years ago.
It has XP which is nice and a pentium 4, 50 gig hard drive, etc. I need to get all of my old music out of itunes and put the music I am missing back into my library. As well as my photos. Then wipe it clean and I want a complete and total wipe and have XP fresh so I can replace the crappy family computer with this not so crappy laptop. any help, links on what to do would be great. I should be able to transfer via ethrenet correct? I've never done that before. I was toying with putting linux on it but Winders should work fine. I might actually need to update it to 7 if this thing can handle it nevermind.. I need at least a gig of ram and it has 504 mb. and 16 gigs of hard drive space.. jeeze 7 is a pig. |
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Clay pigeon substitute?
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Doing it via the ethernet is not a problem, just need to turn file sharing on and make sure they're all on the same workgroup. It will probably take a lot longer than just throwing it on an external drive though. I toyed with all that stuff a couple years ago with an old laptop...ended up throwing it out as it was outdated and I have plenty of other gadgets. Sadly it worked fine, I suspect a lot of computers and laptops are tossed simply for being slightly obsolete
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I would make a ghost copy to something else before I started anything...
Just in case....
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As far as transfering files there is only maybe 3-4 gigs of music I actually want and 2-3 gigs of photos. I may just burn them all to DVD's for hard back up and copy to my new laptop. Toying with going with Ubuntu. |
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Before wiping the OS off the old drive, make sure you have a good (licensed) copy of XP or 7 or whatever you'll be using. Student discount via the university can be a wonderful thing for Microsoft products.
Check craigslist for cheap RAM. |
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don't forget to dump all yer nawty pitchers...
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I think I might go with Kubuntu and I think make an install DVD
then I can do the first thing you suggested. I've never done the second thing you posted The only snag I forsee is my family that would use the laptop. If it has linux then they might not be able to sync their iPods to it. |
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check my last post. I added some stuff
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For copying the files to the new computer, I always keep a spare external enclosure that converts the internal drive to USB.
You simply remove the drive from the computer and slide it into the enclosure. Then, you can plug it into the new computer and browse and copy at will. They're cheap, like around $10 at Tiger/Comp USA. After you copy everything you want off of it, you can just format it.
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