Bought a desktop and need to move my files

Luckless wrote in post #17443007
Does any networking gear from the last decade or more actually need a crossover cable now? Everything I've used for years now has supported auto detection to adjust itself for point to point as needed.

anything with Gigabit copper ports supports auto crossover as it's part of the spec. A lot of vendors support 100M autocrossover, Cisco is not one of them (unless you count Cisco/Linksys, which I avoid like the plague anyway...)

I still fit crossover cables to switch-to-switch links if possible, generally because some folks like to nail the link speed, and as soon as you do that - bang goes the auto-crossover function which is quite hard to rectify remotely...

Wilt wrote in post #17450835
^^^

1TB capacity USB connected external harddrives can be found (like on Amazon.com!) for only $60, hardly a burdensome expense. It is highly unlikely that any 5 year old laptop had 1TB of data (the entire internal harddrive is smaller!)
Plug it into your laptop, and copy all of the images to it...then, as you need, you can access those photos from your new desktop PC selectively, merely by having the external harddrive plugged into the desktop PC.

I didn't realize they were so cheap on Amazon...hadn't thought to look there! Everywhere I look (in-store) have been around $100...I will have to work on that!

Thanks everybody!