Alright so recently I finished building my rig and now I have a ton of files on my laptop that need to be transferred over. I have no external hard drive making the process even harder. I do have a router and Ethernet cables but so far I haven't been able to get a connection between the two computers. I have too much data to move with a CD-RW disc and my flash drive doesn't have the storage space I need since it's also my Xbox Memory Card (Which my console is so full I can't move anything from the flash drive back onto it). I tried a HomeGroup but it wouldn't work at all either. Any ideas on this problem?

You could transfer it over the network. Create a workgroup, share out the folders, and wait a long ass time.

I personally would just pull the drive out of the laptop and connect it to my desktop. Since you don't have an adapter, just connect it to your motherboard.

The Cloud? is it possible to upload then download or are the files to big?

I guess you should buy a external drive, i mean i got a 500gb on the cheap.

@crick120: If you're not worried about bandwidth, it'd be easy enough to throw stuff up on Google Drive or Dropbox and download it when it's all been uploaded. Otherwise you can just buy a flash drive; they're like a dollar per gig now.

Here's a pretty good, quick and dirty walkthrough of how to handle this with a token Ethernet cable. Seems to be doing the work on a Windows 8 machine at some point, which would indicate this should work with any version of Windows post-1995.

Do it over a network. Start it at night when you go to bed, and then wake up that morning with it done. It will likely take some time, but it shouldn't be that hard.

I would agree with this.