Hi, Mr Foxy here!
I want a load of mp3's off my pc, and onto my laptop and the cdrw on my pc doesnt work anymore cos it broke. Whats the cheapest way to quickly get these files off my pc and onto my laptop?

CheeRS all!:)

buy one of the usb memory sticks there about £20 for a 64mb one

connect the 2 with a parallel port cable, acts as a network cable!

i think you have to do "direct connection"

it's been a while since i've used it but i've got one lying around somewhere.

25 quid will buy you a hub and two network cards plus cabling from pc world or 2 network cards plus a crossover cable.

Si

£3.99 buys you a 3.5 IDE to 2.5 IDE adaptor.

Plug the laptop hard disc into this and then plug into your main machine, and transfer files at IDE speeds.

OK, not very practical for doing updates, but if you have a single, big transfer to do, it's the business.

Cheers

Ian

Yep as Mr Watkins says, get it plugged the right way around on trhe drive ands put it as say a secondary master drive in the main PC and as long as your machine picks it up, p[iece of pish :)

Erm, as long as either have both drives running FAT32 or NTFS eg. If the main machine is 9X/ME and the laptop is nt/2k/xp with a NTFS file system, then you will have no luck when plugged into the main machine.

Cheers,

Nick :)

Just be carefull - I tried the 2.5 to 3.5 connector and managed to blow the fusebox in my old flat! (must have been doing something wrong!! :D)

Why not just buy a new cd writer.

Thanks everyone! very much appreciated! I would buy a new cd writer but theyre too expensive and I'n not 100% that it is actually faulty, so a cheaper alternative for now would be best. Anyone know if usb memory sticks need drivers?

Thanks again! :D

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&pro duct_uid=46605

just got one yesterday seems really good and well cheap. You need to get drivers if you are on win98 but XP and 2000 etc just plug it in. Drivers are only a meg anyway