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"enquiring minds" wrote in message
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philo wrote:

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I need to network my laptop to my desktop so the laptop sees a
virtual
drive letter that's actually a directory on the desktop. The laptop
is
an older PIII with Serial, parallel, USB 1.1 - no ethernet. Windows
has
"direct cable connection" for serial/parallel, but Mircrosoft says
"Before you can transfer files from the host to the guest computer,
the
files must be in a shared directory,..."
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/arc...mspx?mfr=true).

The desktop is a newer Athlon 1.0Ghz with XP Pro. The laptop is a
PIII
500mhz with 98SE. The laptops serial port is an EIA232-E, 16550
compatible, 9-pin D; the parallel port is IEEE P1284-A, EPP, and
ECP
compatible. Which connection would be faster (serial/parallel) - an
article on Wiipedia says asynchronous RS232 is actually faster than
parallel at higher CPU clock speeds due to "skew" caused by the
parallel cable. I'll probably just get a NULL serial cable, because
I
expect it to be cheaper, and I won't be needing it again - if this
will
work.

The reason I need this is that files were accidently deleted from
the
laptop via DOS. The file recovery software can see them, and it
asks
for a drive/directory to save the restored files in - so I need a
virtual drive letter - the desktop computer. I don't want to save
the
restored files locally first, because that could corrupt the other
deleted files. (I don't want to buy a network card for the laptop,
because I don't want to install software for it...)


Although, in theory you could connect using a serial cable

I think it might actually be easier to just purchase a harddrive
adaptor for
about $9
and temporarily connect the laptop's drive to your desktop

What do you mean by a harddrive adapter? What do you connect the hard
drive adaptor to on an old win98 that will work?

This adapter is merely pins that plug into the small disk drive
connector (for laptop) and a "full sized" disk connector in a desktop
PC.
Here's an example:
http://www.startech.com/Product/Item...d=IDE4044&c=US
so you hook up the adapter to connect the laptop HDD to the desktop PC
( the adapter plugs into both exisiting cables). Hook up the power, turn
both PC's on, transfer the data - disconnect - put the laptop hdd back
and you're done.

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