Am having prob’s connecting my XP Sys to Wdws98SE Sys to retrieve 1 gb of data files.
Need a step by step config tutorial for Direct Serial port connections. Am using a USB 2.0 Mobile Dock station attached to laptop to have a serial port. XP keeps saying it can’t read the modem(Cable) attached to 98 Sys. My 2 Wdw’s 98 Sys can talk to each other via direct cable connection, but not XP.
Have also searched for Wdws 98SE USB drivers to update to USB 2.0 from standard 98SE USB drivers to install with no internet access from those systems, so need to download to CD/DVD. Any thoughts? Have spent many many days searching and attempting this. Thanks tons.
Direct Cable Connect XP To WIndows 98SE
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That’s a dialup modem, not a network card.
If you can’t network and you can’t use a USB memory key then you do still have a couple alternatives:
1) You could burn the data to CD.
2) You could use a laplink cable and the laplink software. That’s if the software still exists and you can find a laplink cable.
3) Alternatively, if it were me, I’d pull one of the drives out of the computer it’s in and I’d slave it into the other computer. Drag and drop the data from one drive to the other, then put the slaved drive back where it belongs.
#3 is your best bet.
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
***William Henley***