Happy New Year!!
Friday's Feast Appetizer - How do you usually celebrate New Year's Eve? We usually invite a friends over. We've done that the last four years, every time we did it our friends ended up inviting us to their house instead. We asked different friends each year! I don't think there is anything wrong with our house. I think we're more portable than our friends. We travel lighter with one child who can stay awake until midnight. Our friends have multiple children with some that get tucked in much earlier. This year we're going to the same friends as last year, we invited ourselves over again. These friends are marvelous. Of the adults each of us truly enjoys the company of the other three. We are sure to laugh the night away. My son adores their children and they all get along famously. Who can ask for anything better than that?
Soup - Name one unexpected thing that happened to you in 2006. Getting a new PC for christmas! How great is that?
Salad - Where was your favorite place that you visited in 2006? Cancun. We went with the same family we will see this New Year's Eve, need I say more?
Main Course - What resolution is your top priority for 2007? Be nicer to the environment.
Dessert - Using just three words, describe 2006. Less stressful job.
I'll be out of town with no internet connection this weekend. I'll see you next year! Happy New Year!
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posted by Barbara at
12/29/2006 05:34:00 PM
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I found that Windows XP comes with a Files and Settings Transfer (FAST) wizard. The wizard will find your files, all your settings (favorites, display, email, etc.)and your outlook pst files. So that solved part of my problem, the manual transfer. I still didn't decide on a way to get the data there.
I looked into a direct connection between both PCs. My new PC didn't have a 9 pin or 25 pin parallel port. Out of the 30 odd extra cables we had accumulated I could find no configuration to connect the two PCs. I checked the Internet and I found a crossover cable that has USB 1.1 on one side and USB 2.0 on the other with a bridge in between. I considered this option, then I found a better solution.
I could buy an external hard drive that is USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 compatible. I thought this was the best solution because I could then use the external drive to backup my data on my new PC. So I went to Staples and bought a 40 gig drive for $50. I love how cheap storage has become. I wasn't out of the woods yet though.
First I had to download the drivers for the new hard drive on to my old PC. That went well. The next step was to get my data on the external drive. The directions for the XP FAST wizard says to start the process on the new PC first, then go to your old PC and start the process with an XP CD. You can either use the XP CD that came with your new PC, or the wizard will burn a new one for you. I had the XP CD, so I chose that option. I wasn't out of the woods yet though.
My old PC could not read the XP DVD (the directions call it a CD). Now what! Oh yeah, I could let the FAST Wizard burn me a new one. I wasn't out of the woods yet though.
I couldn't figure out the drives on my new PC. They don't seem to list correctly in Windows Explorer. I tried to burn a new copy of the XP CD for a couple of hours without success, then another idea came to me. I could burn a copy of the XP CD onto my new external hard drive. So I did that. When I plugged the hard drive into my old PC I had no problem starting the FAST wizard. It compressed all my data and settings onto my new hard drive (took about 4 hours because of the slow data rate on a 1.1. USB port). Next I connected the new drive to the new PC and told the FAST Wizard on the new PC where to find my data. It moved it over without a hitch. I wasn't out of the woods yet though.
I couldn't get my email to work. I couldn't send or receive messages. I went back to Google and spent an hour or two figuring out that Norton Anti-Virus interferes with Outlook mail. I spent another hour trying to fix it. Finally I could receive mail, but I couldn't send it. WTF? Obviously, I wasn't out of the woods yet.
For the next couple of hours I diagnosed my email problem. Nothing seemed to fix it. I thought maybe there was a unique problem with my ISP and I should narrow my focus to Roadrunner problems. I typed my outgoing email server name into Google: smpt-server.rochester.rr.com, Google asked me if I meant to type smtp-server.rochester.rr.com. Aha ! I had a typo in the server name that I couldn't see for some reason. I fixed the typo. I was finally out of the woods!