Is it impossible to connect a Win 10 tablet to a Win 7 PC via USB?

Eric Pode | 09 May 2018 | Eric Pode

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

I never imagined this would be impossible until I actually had to try and do it.

I'm trying to connect via USB my desktop (homebuilt, Intel based, Win 7 Ultimate) to a Lenovo Yoga tablet (Win 10) to copy over about 40 gig of files.

An hour long web search reveals no straightforward way to do this, indeed many sites say it's not possible by design.

I never give up until I have checked FR.

Am I stuck shuttling the files between computers using a flash drive, or my bog-slow home wireless network?

[PAR35]

to a Lenovo Yoga tablet (Win 10) to copy over about 40 gig of files.

First Question: Is the tablet really going to be able to hold 40 gigs of files on top of a Win10 operating system and anything else you have on there?

[Conan the Librarian]

Does your desktop have wifi?

You can make the Windows 10 computer a hotspot, connect the desktop to it and make a network drive to copy files from/to.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Where there is a will there is a way:

[semimojo]

ftp and Ethernet cable.

Doesn't work very well with a tablet like the Yoga that doesn't have an ethernet port.

[MarkL]

If you’re thinking of using a USB cable, then the 2 computers should be close to each other.

You said that your network is very slow. Are you using Wireless?

If you have an Ethernet cable, you have about an 80% chance that you can simply plug the 2 computers together and they’ll communicate (there’s a technology built in to the adapters called MDIX that nearly always works, to eliminate the need for a “cross-over” cable.)

Once the computers are connected, assign network addresses to both computers (each needs a unique address.) Safe settings for TCP/IP you can use are:

COMPUTER1
IP Addr: 10.1.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway: 10.1.1.2
DNS Server: 8.8.8.8 (you can leave this blank.)

COMPUTER2
IP Addr: 10.1.1.2
Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway: 10.1.1.1
DNS Server: 8.8.8.8 (you can leave this blank.)

Set up a share on the Windows 7 computer where the files exist, and map a drive on the Windows 10 computer to the share you set up on the Windows 7 computer.

You should be able to copy files directly from the Windows 7 computer to the Windows 10 computer.

Or you should be able to pick up a 32GB USB thumb drive for about $20 or less and use that to transfer all the files.

Mark

[MarkL]

I paid $1000 for a used 20MB full height 5 1/4” hard drive in 1986.

I needed it to be able to load and run the Altos Xenix development system on my Altos 586 (10MHz 8086, 1MB RAM, 5 serial ports.)

Mark

[the_daug]

use router with ethernet hub and wifi.

[trebb]

I use my WiFi option when time isn't essential -like over night....even so, it doesn't interfere with normal use on a machine if I have files transferring.

I also use a stand-alone USB hard drive to save files and then to make larger transfers - doing it that way is convenient because it keeps a safe copy of everything that isn't stored on a computer but it isn't much faster than using a USB stick....by the time you get a good answer, you would have been able to transfer the files via floppy....