[dba-Tech] Help with moving files from one hard drive to another (Cross posted)

I'd hook them together via the NIC's. You may need a special crossover type 
of cable or else a hub to connect the two systems, but either of those 
should be pretty cheap. You will also need to put a share on the Win98 
system to allow the WinXP system to see it's hard drive. Windows XP has a 
nice wizard that will walk you through everything you need to do on that 
side.

You also could just move the hard drive if they want to keep the entire 
drive. You may need to set some jumpers on the drives - maybe. I just added 
a new hard drive to my home system and found that the newer drives don't use 
jumpers to designate primary or slave drive anymore, it just goes by the 
position they are plugged into on the cable.  Still is dooable - just have 
to determine what each of the two drives capabilities are as far as being 
primary or slave and how to set them for that mode. If you google on the 
type and model of drives, you will undoubtably find info on how to do it.

Dell has a pretty good section on their site telling you how to do it to 
their systems step by step - with pictures and everything.

Gary Kjos
garykjos at hotmail.com





>From: "Stoker, Kenneth E" <Kenneth.Stoker at pnl.gov>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com, AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [dba-Tech] Help with moving files from one hard drive to another 
>(Cross posted)
>Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:35:48 -0800
>
>Everyone,
>
>I have a co-worker who came to me and asked me how to get the files off
>his old computer onto his new computer.  First questions I asked were do
>you have any larger capacity media drives, cd burner, zip drive, etc.
>Answer is no.  So, I thought it should be possible for him to open his
>old computer, take out the hard drive, put it in his new computer and
>the new computer on boot up should recognize the older hard drive.  Is
>this correct?
>
>Old machine:  PII 233MHz running Win98
>New machine:  PIV 2.66 GHz running WinXP Pro.
>
>Another option is that he says both machines have NICs.  Can he just
>plug the two machines together through the NICs and have them recognize
>each other?
>
>I have to admit that I haven't tried to do things this way myself so I
>hope that some extra guidance can help us get this right.
>
>Any help offered is greatly appreciated.
>
>Ken Stoker
>Technology Commercialization
>Information Systems Administrator
>PH: (509) 375-3758
>FAX: (509) 375-6731
>E-mail:  Kenneth.Stoker at pnl.gov
>
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