Direct Connection-HELP

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Stupid

Hi,
I hope I am posting this in the correct forum. I am really
ignorant when it comes to networking or direct accessing
another pc. I am pretty good at the rest of pc
funcunallity thousg. Here is my situation. For days now I
have been trying to move my old files from my old pc
(windows 98) to my new pc (windows xp) by way of a direct
connection through the parallel ports. I have tried the
built in "file transfer function" (xp), on my new pc, I
have tried "pc-anyware", I've tried creating new
connections and still the pc's won't communicate. I'm sure
I'm doind somthing wrong I just don't know what. Could it
the parallel cord?. I am very frustrated. My coworker gave
me the "pc-anyware" and the cable and said it could be
done that way but it is trick. Boy was he right. I've been
on the web looking for instructions but it has to be me
that's not doing it correctly. I have a feeling it's easy
to the person who nows this stuff, but I am at a complete
loss inthis area. If it's not to much trouble, would
someone guide me or make a suggestion for for myself, the
novice?

Greatfully,
Stupid
 
Thanks Drew,
So you say I should use TCP/IP with a direct parallel
connection between to pc's? Is that correct?
 
scoobee-doo said:
Thanks Drew,
So you say I should use TCP/IP with a direct parallel
connection between to pc's? Is that correct?
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First, you are not stupid for not being able to do this! I'm going to
suggest an easier way. Slave the hard drive with the files you want to
target into the computer with the target drive. I helped my brother do
this on the phone 3,000 miles apart and he isn't at all tech-savvy. I
just wrote up this little explanation, so see if this helps:

"Here is how to slave a hard drive in another machine in order to copy
over its data. We'll call this drive "drive.old" and the target drive
"target.drive". Turn off both computers, and then take drive.old out of
its computer, gently removing the ribbon cable and power connector.
Handle hard drives carefully, and try not to touch any exposed circuit
boards. Look at drive.old - between the connectors for the ribbon cable
and power is a small section with little pins. There will be a tiny
plastic rectangle covering some of the pins. This is called a "jumper"
and is used to set the drive's status to master, slave, or cable
select. If drive.old was the only drive in the computer and was not
already the slave drive, you will need to change the jumper position
from master to slave. If you plan on putting drive.old back in its
computer, make a drawing of the jumper area so you can put everything
back the way it was. You can determine the jumper settings for a drive
by 1) sometimes there is a picture of the jumper settings on the drive
itself; or 2) looking in the drive manual, if you still have it; or 3)
looking on the drive mftr.'s website. In many cases, just removing the
jumper completely will set the drive to slave. Some drives need a
different jumper setting for "master - single" and "master - with
slave", so you might need to change the jumper settings on
target.drive, although usually this isn't necessary.

Now attach drive.old in drive.new's computer by putting it on one of
the ribbon cable connectors and plugging in a power connector. Turn on
target.drive's computer. If you've done everything right, then
drive.old will show up in the BIOS and then in Windows. You can then
drag and drop your data from drive.old to the place of your choice on
target.drive. When you are finished, shut down the computer and reverse
your steps. This procedure is actually very easy and doesn't take long
to do."

BTW, this takes a lot less time to do than it took to 1) write it; 2)
read it.

Malke
 
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