I’ve replaced my old laptop with a new one and I have over 350GB worth of data to move over, moving all of it to an external drive and then moving them to the new laptop doesn’t seem efficient and it seems like it’s gonna take forever

I know there are some special cables that can do that but I don’t wanna waste money on something that I’m only gonna use once every 5 years at most.

  • @vatw@vlemmy.netEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure you need something called a “usb transfer cable” which can do the job. It has a special electronic chip in the middle that tricks each PC on either side into thinking the other is a usb stick. (Or something!??)

    I’ve never used one, and didn’t know there was such a thing which existed until minutes ago. But like you say - probably a waste to use once.

    If one happens to be an Apple brand, they do have something called Target Disk Mode, but assuming not since you say PC.