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File transfer problem(s)
Have new pc with XP Home. Trying to transfer files from old Win98SE. Says
must use serial cable. Purchased combination serial/parallel cable. Attached to both pc's. XP's wizard says to make copy of wizard to use in '98, but will only access drives F,G,H and I for copying. Finally found wizard in hard drive of XP; copied it on CD (I DO NOT have a 3-1/2" floppy drive), put it in '98. '98 says a DLL or LOG file is missing. All help greatly appreciated. Jim H.. -- God help those, who help themselves; to my lunch! |
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Howstuffworks "How to set up a network between two computers in my home
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question353.htm Tech Guide Connecting Two Computers Together http://www.mycableshop.com/techartic...2computers.htm EZLAN (How to connect two computers to exchange files) http://www.ezlan.net/direct.html "HELPNHAND" wrote: Have new pc with XP Home. Trying to transfer files from old Win98SE. Says must use serial cable. Purchased combination serial/parallel cable. Attached to both pc's. XP's wizard says to make copy of wizard to use in '98, but will only access drives F,G,H and I for copying. Finally found wizard in hard drive of XP; copied it on CD (I DO NOT have a 3-1/2" floppy drive), put it in '98. '98 says a DLL or LOG file is missing. All help greatly appreciated. Jim H.. -- God help those, who help themselves; to my lunch! |
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Hi, Jim.
It might be easier to simply open both computers' cases and physically move your old HD to new PC temporarily. Check jumpers (master to slave?) and IDE cable and BIOS to be sure that the old drive is properly recognized by the new PC. Then boot into WinXP and run Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc at the Run prompt). Disk Management will assign "drive" letters to the volumes on your old HD. You can reassign these letters, but it's OK to just use the defaults, because this is only temporary, long enough to copy the files to your new HD. Then use any good copy command or program to copy everything you want from old to new. I like good old Xcopy in a "DOS" window in WinXP. This command ought to do it, copying ALL the files in a volume, where X: is the source volume and F: is the destination: xcopy x:\ f:\ /c /h /e /r /k For a mini-Help file showing all the switches and parameters available with Xcopy (or any other command in the "DOS" window), just type the command followed by /?, like this: xcopy /? After the copy is complete, simply reset the jumpers and cables and put the old HD back in the old PC. All done! ;) RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP "HELPNHAND" wrote in message ... Have new pc with XP Home. Trying to transfer files from old Win98SE. Says must use serial cable. Purchased combination serial/parallel cable. Attached to both pc's. XP's wizard says to make copy of wizard to use in '98, but will only access drives F,G,H and I for copying. Finally found wizard in hard drive of XP; copied it on CD (I DO NOT have a 3-1/2" floppy drive), put it in '98. '98 says a DLL or LOG file is missing. All help greatly appreciated. Jim H.. |
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