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Ethernet transfer on WindowsForum.com covers moving large volumes of data between Windows PCs over a wired connection rather than relying on cloud storage, USB drives, or a NAS. The tagged discussion walks through shifting nearly a terabyte between Windows 10 and Windows 11 laptops using an Ethernet cable, Windows file sharing, and Robocopy, the command-line copy tool built into Windows. It highlights why the approach still matters for big migrations and where each step can fail, since discovering a problem 400GB into a 1TB job is costly. The focus stays on practical, repeatable wired transfers between Windows machines.
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    Transfer 1TB Between Windows 10 and 11 PCs Using Ethernet and Robocopy

    Nearly a terabyte of data, two Windows laptops, and no NAS, no cloud plan and no USB drive. That was the situation XDA Developers writer Anurag Singh described after moving his media-server library from one machine to another. He did it with an Ethernet cable, Windows file sharing and Robocopy...