Transfer Data To New Laptop

[newcastle1]

I got a new laptop for Christmas.
How do I get data from old laptop to new laplop or do I need to take it to shop to get this done?
Thanks

[Prudie]

What kind of data? I recently did the same and I'm not a techie. I brought all my photos, docs, word and excel files etc over by using an external hard drive ie plugged hard drive into old laptop, copy and pasted everything I wanted and then plugged into new laptop and did the same. Worked for me. Also has the advantage that if my laptop goes berserk I have everything saved still on my hard drive.

[ToraToraTora]

Depends how much of it there is but I'd just copy all your personal files to a USB drive then copy it to the new machine.

[barry1010]

You could back everything up to free cloud storage such as One Drive and Dropbox, then it is easy to access from any device and gives you reliable backup.
I do love memory sticks/flash drives/thumb drives though and external hard drives are cheap enough these days.
You could buy a data transfer cable for around £8, fast and easy
So plenty of easy ways to do it yourself.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes barry I use onedrive but I didn't want to complicate the issue for the OP.

[Maydup]

I save everything on One Drive too, so accessible from any device. Either that or load it all into a memory stick and move it over that way.

[barry1010]

Just as easy to upload to OneDrive as a memory stick