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Connecting laptop via serial or parallel port - w/virtual drive letter
Try using a USB flash memory drive....
wrote in message ups.com... 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...rkc19.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...) Any help appreciated. |
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