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Old 08-24-2005 | 09:07 PM
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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?
Old 08-24-2005 | 09:32 PM
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Check to see what workgroup it's in and run the "network configuration wizard"
Old 08-24-2005 | 09:36 PM
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I did that on the new computer, I dont think thats a option on the old one
Old 08-24-2005 | 10:03 PM
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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..
Old 08-25-2005 | 06:03 AM
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the older computers run win98
Old 08-25-2005 | 07:17 AM
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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.



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Old 08-25-2005 | 07:29 AM
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wouldent it be just as easy to remove one hard drive put it in your computer and transfure the information ?
Old 08-25-2005 | 09:53 AM
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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 ?

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this is the easiest way. i can do it for rob easily if he wants but he lives far away dammit.................
Old 08-25-2005 | 08:40 PM
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[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.................

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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.
Old 08-25-2005 | 10:06 PM
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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 ******* 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 ****** off it


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