Cable for data transfer?
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Posted by Terry Pinnell on March 10, 2008, 8:06 am
Please log in for more thread options Home under SP1) to my new one (XP Pro, SP2). Do I just need to buy a 5 metre USB to USB cable please? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by sandy58 on March 10, 2008, 9:28 am
Please log in for more thread options Make your old hard drive a slave in your new box. If it's IDE the old hdd goes in the middle of the IDE ribbon with jumper set at "slave" or "CS" (Cable Select) & new hdd jumper at MS (Master) or CS on the end of the ribbon. Swapping your stuff over then is as usual. Good luck, Terry. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Brian Cryer on March 10, 2008, 11:45 am
Please log in for more thread options >I will need to transfer most of the data on my present ageing PC (XP
> Home under SP1) to my new one (XP Pro, SP2). Do I just need to buy a 5 > metre USB to USB cable please? There are USB "cables" you can buy which are specifically for connecting up two pcs. These aren't a straight cable but have a logical device in the middle. (For example: http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=15704&CatId=912.) Don't be fooled into thinking this is networking your two pcs, it isn't (or at least the usb transfer cable I does doesn't create what XP regards as a network.) Is your old PC on the network, because if it is then copying files via the network would be quicker and easier. Failing that, then go With the suggestion of "sandy58" and take the disk out of your old pc and add it to your new one - just be sure that you don't end up booting from it instead of the disk in your new pc. -- Brian Cryer www.cryer.co.uk/brian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on March 10, 2008, 5:26 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:06:45 +0000, Terry Pinnell
>I will need to transfer most of the data on my present ageing PC (XP
>Home under SP1) to my new one (XP Pro, SP2). Do I just need to buy a 5 >metre USB to USB cable please? If both of them already have a network adapter (which is common, typical for systems of this era) just put a crossover ethernet cable between the two systems. A bit more about networking configuration can be found on many websites with a Google search including terms like networking, file sharing. If the new system has a gigabit ethernet port instead of 100Mb, you can use a straight (standard) ethernet cable instead of a crossover cable. If you already have a router with integral switch or a standalone switch you don't need to connect the two directly together, can instead just connect them to that router or switch. If one of the systems doesn't have a network adapter it could still be cost effective to buy a network adapter and cable for that - it may cost no more than a more proprietary USB cable and having both able to be networked they are both more versatile in the long run. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by DaveW on March 10, 2008, 6:49 pm
Please log in for more thread options No; wrong cable. You need to buy a Cat. 5 "Crossover Cable." It's a
special cable for doing just what you want to do. A normal Cat. 5 cable will NOT work. -- --DaveW >I will need to transfer most of the data on my present ageing PC (XP
> Home under SP1) to my new one (XP Pro, SP2). Do I just need to buy a 5 > metre USB to USB cable please? > > -- > Terry, East Grinstead, UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> Home under SP1) to my new one (XP Pro, SP2). Do I just need to buy a 5
> metre USB to USB cable please?
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> Terry, East Grinstead, UK