I want to transfer about 800MB of data between my Pentium 133 Win95 system and my shiny new Athlon 1.9+ WinXP system. I've got a parallel cable that I usually use to go from PC to printer switch, or a serial cable which is specifically for laplinking.
I've got a copy of Laplink Gold Pro but the new machine says XP won't run it. I've tried using the windows own direct cable connection thingy, but it wont work at all for parallel, and throws up an error when trying to connect with the serial cable.
Any ideas on how I can get this data accross? Don't want the hassle of taking HDDs out etc, and I don't mind leaving the data to transfer overnight over the serial cable, but would prefer to get the parallel to work as presumably this will be a lot faster.
Thanks in advance.
Scoobyster

 

I'd take the hard disk out and copy it that way. By the time you've messed about with setting on laplink etc you'd of done it !

 

Taking the hard disk out is going to be very fiddly, involves taking the PSU out and getting screw drivers into very awkward places! Would rather avoid it if possible.

 

you aint got any network cards then?

otherwise i'd say take the hdd out ... you would have done it by the time you read this..

 

theres a belkin USB file sharing cable £20ish i think

Si

 

Don't use the USB connection, it took an hour to sort win 98 out after it failed to work and completely destroyed win me. Searched the Microsoft site with the error message I had and the Knowledge base told me to format and reinstall the OS !!!!!!!!! Serial connection is very slow

 

Put the PCs side by side, connect the new PC to the hard disk in the old PC using a long IDE cable. Connect one of the plugs from the new PC power supply to the old hard disk. I've done this before and it's worked OK.

 

Couldn't use USB because the old PC doesnt support it (Win 95A).
Really don't fancy messing around getting the hard drive out, but Ken's side by side trick sounds good, will have a go at that.
Thanks guys.