My thoughts exactly.  I was just heading off to my supplier to p/u an extra
NIC.  I'll build the cross over cable and hook 'em up together.

Problem is now I can't get the drive to boot up in the original machine.
 It's Primary/only partition is likely no longer active.  My client had
*no* boot disk and certainly has no clue as to what DDO was used (if any)
on that drive.  Since I don't have a proper boot disk (Windows sees it as a
non-DOS partition), I'm going to pop in another drive in the old system -
throw Win95 on it and hope that I'll be able to see that original drive (as
a primary slave) in it's original system (since the original BIOS is
there).  I'm hopeful this will do the trick.  Having done this - if the
stars are aligned right - I'll be able to go forward using the peer-to-peer
set up to txfr the data.

If anyone has any other ideas or advice -  please, don't hesitate to send
it my way.  I'm open open open to advice.  I don't want to blow this as my
client's data is on this hard drive and - naturally there is no backup.


Joan Rapier
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You could just pop a network card into each machine, connect them with a
null modem cable ("crossover") and transfer your stuff that way. Network
cards are really cheap these days, and it's ridiculously easy to set up a
peer-to-peer "network" between two machines running 95/98.

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