Thanks for the insight but I never planned on doing it for them, just informing them how to do it so they can retrieve their data and send the computer my way when they're done with it. Also, many of the old computers are dead so I don't know how you could transfer data via the methods you described. Any ideas for dealing with a dead machine?Originally Posted by FLimits
You could do that, but you're not the GeekSquad, and they're not paying you what they'd pay the GeekSquad guy. If they've bought a new computer already, they should have had the data transferred by the vendor (unless they bought it online). Otherwise, they can transfer their data from their old computer to DropBox, Google Drive, or SkyDrive, and either keep it there so it's always easy to access or copy it over to their new machine. If they're too old-school or nervous to do that, then tell them to get one of those little USB flash drives (a.k.a. "stick" or "thumb drive") with enough capacity to hold their old data, and copy everything onto that. It's very nice of you to want to help them with their technology needs, but then you're getting into a whole other line of business! You'll end up spending all your time trying to help people figure out where the heck they put all their files, and later, when they discover that the file with their favorite picture from their vacation 3 years ago is missing, they'll come back and blame you. You need that like you need a hole in the head!
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