Because those are not, unfortunately, in my current inventory of gadgets
& stuff ... although, I just realized I don't need a crossover ethernet
cable, I could just buy another ethernet hub & a spare monitor to get
both up and running at the same time; share their drives to each other &
copy the photos across.
Maybe if I was going to keep both computers. But as soon as I get mom's
photos off the hard-drive on the PC300PL, it's going to recycle. I'd run
the recovery disk to restore the original preload & donate it to
charity, but I don't think anyone will take anything as old as a Pentium
III.
On 3/3/2014 2:22 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
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.
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