Transferring data from old laptop to new one

Roger from Findlay , Ohio , emailed us asking for help with buying a new laptop and what software he can use to move his data from his old laptop to his new one.

Follow these steps: Plug the USB flash drive into an available USB port on your current computer and copy the files over.

If you have a lot of media files (photographs, videos, etc. etc.), then you might be better suited with an external hard drive.

Follow these steps: For Windows , connect external hard drive (HDD or SSD) to your current computer's USB port.

For Mac , use the keyboard shortcuts Command-C to copy and Command-V to paste the files.

Transferring data with a physical drive is always faster, but if you have a speedy internet connection, then transferring via cloud storage is an excellent way to bring your new data over to a new computer.

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