10th April 2007, 10:03 AM
Quote:What exactly are you suggesting here? I'm not sure I understand. He's trying to set up a network, which is greatly advantageous in and of itself. Is it the DVD burner for backups thing? I'd go with buying a cheap enclosure kit to use a second hard drive for USB.
DVD burner for burning a DVDRW and putting it in the other system and copying those files as a way to back things up... had some problems with discs not being able to be read.
Network as in trying to connect the two computers with an ethernet wire and get them to see eachother... couldn't figure out how to do it and gave up (and besides, each one of them has only one ethernet port, so I can't both connect them and connect to the internet at the same time...)
Ryan's probably right, swapping out the hard drives (temporarily plugging them into the new computer and copying over the data) probably IS fastest, as tedious and annoying as it is...