[Squawk 8888]

Forget the floppy drive- save yourself a lot of trouble, by a network card for the old PC and you can copy your data over in a fraction of the time it takes to burn CDs or swap diskettes. LAN cards are dirt cheap- you can get one these days for the price of a box of CD-Rs.

[cinFLA]

Forget the floppy drive- save yourself a lot of trouble, by a network card for the old PC and you can copy your data over in a fraction of the time it takes to burn CDs or swap diskettes.

Pull the old drive out and put it into the new PC as a second hd.

[Labyrinthos]

Forget the floppy drive- save yourself a lot of trouble, by a network card for the old PC and you can copy your data over in a fraction of the time it takes to burn CDs or swap diskettes. LAN cards are dirt cheap- you can get one these days for the price of a box of CD-Rs.

The problem is finding a ethernet card that works with Win 95.

[MD_Willington_1976]

01. Turn both computers off.

02. Open up both computer cases.

03. Take the old hard drive out of the old computer.

04. Set the old hard drive jumper to slave.

05. Set the new hard drive jumper to master.

06. Attach the old hard drive via the ide ribbon cable to the new hard drive.

07. Attach internal power cable to the old hard drive.

08. Start up new computer.

09. New OS will detect the old hard drive and asign it a drive letter.

10. Move all your old files* from the old hard drive to a new folder on your new hard drive via drag and drop. * NOTE: files not programs, programs should be properly re-installed on the new OS if supported.

11. Shut down new computer, remove old hard drive.

12. Close new computer case.

13. Re-assemble old computer.

14. Keep old computer for messing around with or donate to charity organization.

Internal IDE transfer is the fastest way to do the transfer.

[dhs12345]

I agree. I bought two 10/100 cards and a cable for 50 bucks. The cable was more expensive than each card. Could probably found cheaper.

I love it!

Procedures for setting the network up can be found on the internet -- search for "peer ethernet."

I used:

http://www.zedex.net/peer.htm