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Originally Posted by jims69camaro
why not install winXP on the second computer?
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its a piece of crap, paul told me himself. old computers dont like XP, if the computer was made before say 2001 XP wont install on it.
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the only other way to access the other computer would be to disconnect it from the switch, buy a crossover cable and connect the two computers via the ethernet cards. winXP will handle that, you won't have to install winXP on the second computer and i think you can get a crossover cable for like $10.
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yea that could work too, or you could just make one if you had an old cable laying around and a crimper (which i doubt he has
) but even with a crossover you still have to give each pc an ip address
and im sure 99% sure that 98 is the one causing the problems since they work on different "platforms" 95-ME are more "single computer based" Oses (not meant for networking) while 2000-2003/XP pro are made to be used on a network since theyre based off of NT 4.1 (XP is also known as NT 5.0, its called that somewhere in the OS)
i think the harddrive swapping idea would most likely be the easiest, that is if windows wants to play nice with them. one of my friends old HDDs wasnt being read on his computer for some odd reason, we tried to install XP and it wouldnt take it, so we reinstalled 2000 Pro and it still wouldnt read the HDD. so i used a recovery thing to make sure everything was still there and it was. so instead of using the command line to copy all the files, i brought it home and connected it to my pc, that just screwed everything up since 1) i dont have windows installed (GRUB wouldnt load, kept giving me error 21) 2) i had a regular drive connected (Parallel ATA) and a SATA drive connected. so what im trying to say is as long as you only connect one additional drive at at time it could possibly work, youd just have to set the harddrive you're swapping in to slave. this is done by the jumpers on the back of the drive. there should be a little chart or something near the jumper that says what pins to place the jumper on to make it into a slave.
m or mstr=master (main drive)
s or slv or something liek that=slave (secondary drive)
csl=cable select (depening on where you put the drive on the IDE cable determines whether its master or slave)
and just as a side note, SATA drives dont have these designations
