Best way to get files from win95 pc to new winXP pc

[tracyw]

What is the best way to do this? I'm thinking take the win95 hard drive out of old pc, adding it to new WinXP pc, and just dragging some of my files to the new drive. Then take out old win95 hard drive when done. Does this sound reasonable? or is there a better way. If I buy 2 network cards to put one in each pc with a regular ethernet cable would that work better or is there alot of config. to do?
Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Tracy

 

[biffo]

You could try using a parallel cable connection and connect your two PCs up and transfer the files that way. Or you could buy a Zip drive and do it that way. A Zip Drive though does take time and you might a need a lot of disks, unless you want to use the same disk over and over again which is time consuming. The choice is up to you. It depends on how many files you need to transfer and how large they are. Biffo, the Godfather of making mistakes in life. Although, his Tek-Tips answers and questions are no mistakes.

 

[tracyw]

Thanks Biffo, I'm looking for the cheapest way to go on this,so on the parallel connection thing, can you give me some help as to what settings I need to have with that?
Would it be in network neighborhood, tcpip or netbeui?
thanks.

 

[biffo]

The parallel cable would be using Network neighbourhood. Win XP nicely sets up and creates a new network for you, although to set it up on your Win 98 machine should be easier. You need to set this up on both machines connect the cable and away you go. It may not be that easy though, because I found that when I tried to transfer files using a cable connection neither computer recognised each other, I was transfering from 98 to XP, the same as you are doing, it could be that because different versions of Windows were being used they clash. Hopefully someone can help ypu out with that if you have problems. If you are thinking of using a parallel cable then I am more than happy to guide you in what to do. Biffo, the Godfather of making mistakes in life. Although, his Tek-Tips answers and questions are no mistakes.

 

[biffo]

Sorry, about that. I was thinking you had a Win 98 machine. Wherever I have put 98 it should be 95, you may still have problems with the transfer. You can only but try. Biffo, the Godfather of making mistakes in life. Although, his Tek-Tips answers and questions are no mistakes.

 

[Mulga]

tracyw,
There is nothing wrong with your own first suggestion, provided you have some familiarity with playing with hardware. Ensure the jumpers on the old drive are set to slave and hook it up as primary slave on the new system (if neccessary unhook your cd rom to do so, if it is currently primary slave). You may have to go into BIOS setup and ensure primary slave is set to auto. Then just drag and drop as you say to your hearts content.

 

[tracyw]

Thanks everyone.

I'll tell you what I ended up doing.
I loaded pcanywhere on both, hooked up a cable and BINGO, it worked like a charm.
A little slow, but there weren't that many files to transfer.
Thank you all for your input. It was appreciated.

TW.