On 08/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have a recommendation on how to copy files from my old hard drives to > a new hard drive? I used to do it in the bad old days with a parallel cable > between two computers. Must be an easier way now. > > And/or how do I make the drives in the current desktop, back up drives for > new desk top? I have an 80 gig drive and a 200 gig drive that seem okay. It > seems more a motherboard problem and speed problem. Frankly it seems more an > AOL > problem, but it's a good time for me to upgrade anyway.
Marnie, Any of the 3.5 inch enclosures on this page will do what you want: <http://www.maplin.co.uk/search.aspx?MenuNo=54396&MenuName=External+Drive+Boxes&worldid=4&FromMenu=y&doy=8m12> There'll be something similar in the US I'm sure. > I don't particularly want to network the current desktop, because as far as I > understand then I would have to have two monitors, two keyboards, and two > mice. Unless I can network just the tower. You could do things this way but there wouldn't need to be two of everything like that. You could either use a KVM switch (keyboard/video/mouse switch) or if the old desktop has XP (or possibly win2000?) use the "Remote Desktop Connection" feature of Windows. But the previous method is porbably simpler and leaves less clutter. Eric. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
