If your goal is simply to transfer files, the easiest thing is to take the 
old drive out and install it in the newer machine.  You can copy files and 
then put it back in the old machine if you want.  Remember to make the 
master/slave settings appropriate, and, if you then remove the drive, return 
the settings to their original state.  This is pretty easy to do even for 
someone who has not messed with hardware much.  (Recommended action.)  If 
you do not have a spare IDE connection, disconnect one of the drives or cd 
readers and use that connection temporarily.

If the newer machine is a notebook, and it has a free IDE slot but the drive 
will not fit, you can probably use a ribbon to make a temporary connection, 
but I don't know too much about notebooks.  It may depend on the notebook. 
Similar comments if the older machine is a notebook.

And - if the cable is long enough and will reach - you can connect the cable 
directly from the old drive (in situ) to the newer computer IDE slot.  Both 
computers will have to be on to provide power to the old drive.

I hope that this helps.

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Citkowitz" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:46 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Cable for file transfer


Can I use the IDE cable from the HD in a nonresponding 95 machine to
connect, with some kind of adapter, to an XP machine?

Rob

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