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8===>Q: alyn
00:46 / 13.02.06
Hello. I just got a new Dell laptop. My old laptop looks like something Tom Petty pulled out of the sand in the video for "Good Love (Is Hard To Find)", and my old PC is a Frankenstein test machine from my dad's defunct QA company, so this is the first really functional machine I've had in years. I have stuff on those old machines, though, such as applications, that I'd like to salvage, and I'd maybe even like to retain them for storage. Trying to read tutorials and helpfiles is making my face bleed. I can't even tell if I'm asking for the right thing.

Neither machine has any functioning media devices--no disc drives, no cd-rom, no nada. The PC has a wireless modem and the old laptop has ethernet ports, but not vice versa. I have managed to set up a shared folder w/the PC via an ad hoc wireless connection, but what I'd really like is full access to both old machines through the new machine, so that I can treat them as external drives. I'd like to throw out the old monitor and keyboard. Is this possible? What is it called? How do I do it?

Thanking you in advance,
Mr Qalyn
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
00:51 / 13.02.06
Easiest thing to do is to pull out the hard drives and put them in caddies, probably...
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
01:01 / 13.02.06
I forgot to mention that I don't want to buy any new stuff! What is a caddy. Are you being serious?
 
 
grant
18:02 / 13.02.06
You could probably use the laptop as a network drive if you hooked it up to your wireless router with an ethernet cable.

Haus' solution seems much less complicated, though.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
18:27 / 13.02.06
running the 2 old machines wires with permanent IP addresses would work, depending on how many wired points your router has.

although keeping both old machines is not needed, you could put all the data from the laptop onto the desktop and just run that machine as a file server.

a caddy, as haus mentioned, is an enclosure for hard drives which connect via USB, making an external hardrive.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
18:36 / 13.02.06
although keeping both old machines is not needed, you could put all the data from the laptop onto the desktop and just run that machine as a file server.

That sounds good. How do I do that? I mean, I'll research it when I have a chance, but do you have any advice?
 
  
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