Why not put a crossover ethernet cable between two PCs? Or even an rs232 and an ancient copy of Laplink?
B > On 3 Mar 2014, at 17:18, "John" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pardon my RANT! > > [...] > > When they dumped mom's computer into the closet, they didn't do anything to > retrieve mom's photos of family & grand-kids. And somehow they've managed to > erase the photos I'd brought over to the Netvista from the PC300PL, so I have > to recover the photos from both computers. > > Both computers have CD-ROM drives & USB ports. Neither has a writable CD > drive. The Win98SE computer doesn't have drivers for ANY of the USB thumb > drives that I have. I searched the net for legacy drivers, but so far NO JOY! > I have to figure out a way to get the photos that are still on the PC300PL > without being able to use a USB thumb drive. > > But I have a plan! > > I've got a USB hard-drive dock. All I have to do is remove the hard drives > and attach them to the docking station. > > Except that I need the MOLEX cable to power the drives, and I don't have one. > Gotta' go to the computer store and get one, and it's just started sleeting. > > The drives from the PC300PL are nominally 20GB (I had added a second drive > for storage & there are photos on both drives. I don't know if it's worth > buying external enclosures for them, but I probably should sooner rather than > later because they're both IDE & I don't know how long IDE enclosures will > still be available. > > Thank you for your time. > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
