02GF74
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 02:29 PM |
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What wold happen if you ....
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1. connect two laptops with a USB cable?
2. connect two laptops using LAN cable?
... bascially want to transfer files from one laptop to the other ideally by doing a copy between the discs without having to use an intermediary
device such as a CD rom or memory stick thingy.
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worX
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 02:30 PM |
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I think you have to use a Crossover LAN cable. (which you can make if you don't have one)
But that's where my PC knowledge ends (and I mean totally ends! And I might not be right about the above statement either!!!)
Steve 
[Edited on 27/5/08 by worX]
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flak monkey
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 02:32 PM |
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You need a special USB cable to connect 2 pcs or you are likely to damage the USB interface as they will both be pushing 5V into each other.
With a LAN cable, you will need a crossover cable, then you can connect 2 pcs directly to eachother. (Easy with XP - needs faffing about with win
2000). If you use a standard network patch cable (like PC to router) it wont work.
All in all its far easier to use a USB stick, or burn the data onto DVD!
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Pdlewis
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 02:33 PM |
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as steve said use a network x over cable (much easier to put it through a router) then setup a shared folder (by right clicking the folder) and pull
from one pc to the other
I dont think USB is possable without some contraption in the middle to stop you blowing up both computers
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flak monkey
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 02:33 PM |
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Or of course you can set up an Ad Hoc wireless network solely between the 2 laptops (assuming they both have wireless built in!) and tranfer the files
that way.
Its probably the easiest! LOL 
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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02GF74
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 02:39 PM |
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^^^ right; I didn't think it would be that easy.
I assume a USB hub will not work for the same reasons since the PC is the master and you cannot have two masters.
A small LAN box .... or locosted option is to transfer the files onto memory in phone or camera - quicker than burning CDs.....
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worX
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 02:48 PM |
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Just get a USB Key/stick. You will use it again and again, they are quite useful and not expensive.
Steve
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 02:50 PM |
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I asked this very thing not that long ago when a computer was dieing. All I did was take out the hard drive and fit it in the other computer, then
copied it over. So easy.
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rayward
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 03:00 PM |
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if you have internet on both, simply email it to yourself
Ray
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mookaloid
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 03:04 PM |
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If you use a crossover cable you'll need to manually configure the IP addresses so that the pc's can talk to each other - if you do this
it will be the fastest way of transferring lots of data over.
Cheers
mark
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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BenB
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 03:06 PM |
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If you've got firewire it's pretty easy (or at least it is on my desktop and laptop both running Xp Pro).
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iank
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 03:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
I assume a USB hub will not work for the same reasons since the PC is the master and you cannot have two masters.
Correct. Even if you can lash up a A-A cable (A end is the master, B a slave) it still wont work for the same reason.
A LAN hub (or a LAN crossover cable) on the other hand would allow them to talk happily modulo PC configuration.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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Humbug
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 03:57 PM |
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If you've alredy got an external hard disk you can use that to transfer the data.
If you haven't got one I would strongly recommend you get one to do backups onto (guess who found out the hard way when his PC went tits
up!).
E.g. Maplins here
e.g. £50 for a portable (powered by the PC) 80GB one, £60 for a 400GB powered one
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Daimo_45
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| posted on 27/5/08 at 07:26 PM |
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Or if everyone was clever and brought macs you could just set up a wireless lan network with three mouse-clicks or simply connect an ieee 1394
(firewire) cable between the 2 macs and browse one of them in drag-and-drop fashion.
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