Re: New Hard Drive

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <3uslii$ral@borg.svpal.org>, wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul
Creager) wrote:

> In article <3uhdja$ngd@newsie.wis.com> you wrote:
> :   I'm about to purchase a new hd. How do I transfer the info from the old
> : one to the new one? I'd appreciate any help I can get on the subject.
>  
> Are we talking SCSI, so you can have both the new one & the old one
> attached at the same time?  If so, good.  Just make partitions the same
> size as your old ones and you can do volume copies.  Much faster than
> file copying.
>  
> If you can't have both online at the same time, then you're stuck with
> copying everything to floppies.  Major drag.  :(
>  
or using a null-modem serial connection between two computers, or (better
yet) if you have access to a Mac, you can use Appletalk to transfer files