I fired up one of the old computers in my house in a attempt to grab all the old pictures from the cameras and gigs of music off it
For whatever reason I cant get the 2 computers to connect to each other, it doesnt find either. I want to do this to my 2nd older computer in the house so I can take those pictures and music off of that also, but its just not working for me My 2 newer computers share files and a printer no problem, but its this old one thats being a bitch- even after I run Windows XP disk in it for the network setup like they say to do. any ideas? is there something simple im missing? |
Check to see what workgroup it's in and run the "network configuration wizard"
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I did that on the new computer, I dont think thats a option on the old one
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what operating system is on the old one?
right click the my computer icon and click properties and look around in there.. if not on older ones i think you had to right click on my network neighborhood. but maybe im might be remembering wrong.. |
the older computers run win98
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You could also have different IP addresses - check this under the tcp/ip properties - If you have only 2 computers I'd say assign them IP addresses yourself. Then you can ping the other computer to see if there's a problem with the actual connection.
Mark |
wouldent it be just as easy to remove one hard drive put it in your computer and transfure the information ?
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[quote name='ryderx' date='Aug 25 2005, 08:29 AM']wouldent it be just as easy to remove one hard drive put it in your computer and transfure the information ?
[snapback]751821[/snapback] [/quote] this is the easiest way. i can do it for rob easily if he wants but he lives far away dammit................. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif |
[quote name='vosko' date='Aug 25 2005, 06:53 AM']this is the easiest way. i can do it for rob easily if he wants but he lives far away dammit................. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif
[snapback]751846[/snapback] [/quote] I dunno. I did this once...I can't remember what OS was on the old drive i put in the XP computer but somehow it fooked the boot sector of the primary drive....before I did that i would just stick the old drive in a USB to external enclosure. those things are cheap these days and are super easy to use. |
they make adaptors you can put a internal hard drive into and access the info through USB?
the 2 old computers were so easy to share files back and forth, why for whatever reason I cant get these fuckers to talk to each other I dont know The old computer has 2 hard drives, one of them has about 40 gigs of music I want to snatch off it |
Win 98 (and 98 SE) computers and WinXP computers DO NOT like to communicate, I tried the exact same thing and had absolutely no luck. I did what they suggested and just pulled the HD and transplanted it, no probs after...
Sean |
what i would do is put everything you want in a .zip file, then download AIM on both comps and do it through a file transfer, me and my brother used to do this on the same netwrok and it would send 700 megs or so in less than a minute.
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but I wonder if the transfer of data would be faster through USB
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