New computer how to transfer old system across 437

Well maybe so however essentially it is a data communications channel. As far as I can see all it would take is a software utility which would make one computer (the one you intend to send the data to) appear as a peripheral to the other computer. For example it might make it appear as a printer so you would 'print' the files you intended to transfer across.

Network adapter is a pretty vague term. It's not inferior if it does the same job. And if I could just download some software, connect the two computers via USB and transfer my file accross then thats all I need to do and I would be very happy with that. Such software would probably be freeware so it would be real easy. Would mean I don't have to go on a big learning currve learning about networking, network adapters etc...then going out and buy a nework adapter or buying one online and awaiting for it to arrive.

Anyway it sounds like it can and has been done but I will need to look into it futher.

Just had a look I and this might be the sort of thing but its not free :O I will have to scour some 'free'ware sites

I am unfamiliar with the term "free-after-rebate" although I have heard it quite a bit from people I presume are in the USA (I'm in the UK) Sounds like you get it free when you pay (over the odds) for something else? machine.

Well I will probably eventualy do it that way and I will look at doing that later. I am a bit concerned about security though with having the computer on a network (Although I am sure it is 'easy' to set it up securely). I would just like to get a load of CD's transfered onto DVD so I can throw the CDs away cos they take up a lot of space and generally hard to manage. (Can never find what I want!!).

At the moment I am planning transfering data from CD onto a 2 gig drive then transfering that drive into the new computer and burning the DVD's from there. The new computer won't read a lot of the CD's, even with the old computers CD drive (which will read them) installed in it for some reason.

I now have both the old comps hard drives copied onto the new computer but I had problems doing that cos Norton Antivirus kept aborting every time it found a 'virus' so I had to switch it off (twice). It kept deleting the 'viruses' too so I was worried the old computer might need those 'viruses' to work :O) Anyway I have rebuttembled my old computer and it still works (using it now) but I was only using its slave drive and it never deleted anyting off the master cos I had figured how to turn off Nortin anti-virus (completely as in twice) by then :O)