Any computer guru's willing to lend a hand?

[Valcorie]

Let me first start by saying HELP!

Here is the situation. I have two computer towers. The one I am having problems with has my resume stored on it. I need it for a job I am applying for today.

The A drive for floppy disks is not working. It recognises that it has an A drive it just refuses to acknowledge that there is a disk in the drive.

It will get on the internet, but is so slow bringing up another page that it usualy just says it can't find server. (I can geta glass of water and a sandwich before a page is done loading)

It won't load the printer software.

SO...is there any practical way to move this information from one computer to the other. I will re-type it if I have to but I would prefer to find another way.

Is is possible to hook the computers to exchange informatin with out having to buy any networking equipment....how pratical is hooking both harddrives to one computer?

Sugestions???

lol
valcorie

 

[Worm]

Well you could hook them up but an easier way would be just to store the file on the web and get it from the other computer or e-mail it to yourself.

 

[Valcorie]

Been there tried that...

That was the first thing that I tried. It boots my offline before I can e-mail. I gave it a go for about 20 minutes.

Thank you for the advice though.

Now, because I have been racking my brain, I want to find way to do it even if I end up retyping it.

Yikes

lol
valcorie

 

[SlowHand89]

Can you transfer your hard drive over to the second computer?

 

[Maiden-hunter]

might be easer to swap the A drives if you info is on floppy

 

[Valcorie]

havn't done that before but...I can find someone to help me out if I need to. That is starting to look like the best alternative.

Is there a way to connect the two towers by a specific port so that one can read the others hard drive? Or am I just wishful thinking?

THANK YOU!!!
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val

 

[Valcorie]

GOOD IDEA!

I hadn't though of swaping A drives. I may end up giving that a go, it something else doesn't present itself. There area few other important files I would like to swap also. I am fixing and giving the 'broken' computer to a friend.

lol

 

[MechaBlade]

If both computers have ethernet cards and you happen to have a cat 5 crossover cable or if you have a serial transfer cable, those are two ways of transferring info from one computer to another directly.

I'm guessing you don't have these though, otherwise you would have tried these first. So try either one of what the above two people said.

 

[Valcorie]

Thank you!

Thank you!

Can you use a serial transfer cable without an ethernet card?

One othe computers has an ethernet card, the other is E-machine and fairly stripped down.

Thank you very much for your ideas!


valcorie

 

[ShyGuy68]

My choice would be to put the harddrive into your tower, and then just copy the data from one drive to another. But then I'm no stranger to building my own system, so for me it's not a difficult task.

 

[Valcorie]

Thank you....