A few problems I need some help with

[Hawkius Maximus 0]

I've been using PC's since about 1996 give or take six or so months or whatever you wiill. However, I've never really gotten into the hardware side of things. I can replace a Hard-drive and things like that but never anything totally serious.

 

A little backstory: Earlier this year, my old Gateway "Fried" forcing me to buy a new PC. I had years of information on that PC but what can you do? So I've dealt with that for some time until today. I started thinking about the old PC and I couldn't remember what went wrong with it, or what it had been doing...so, I dug it out and fiddled with the connections and WHALLAH my old PC is operational again.

 

Now to the present time: I desperately want to get the information I had on this PC onto my new machine. Only problems I face are thus; My old PC had 64 ram, no CD burner and has only two USB ports. I have a USB Jump Drive, but for the LIFE of me I can't get Win98 to install the god damn thing, as it wants drivers which I have litterally no idea where to get for it. It's a Lexar USB "Secure" Jump Drive for those wondering.

 

So question el numero uno: Where can I find a driver that can make 98 friggin install the drive? If I can get it working, I can sllllowly transfer all the crap on there.

 

 

Now for the other one - Since I have two PC's, I've been thinking of connecting them, or "Networking" or whatever they call it. I really don't give a damn about net surfing or anything like that. I just want to freely take stuff from either machine and put it on the other. I've read a WHOLE bunch of ways to do this type of things but I'm limited by the fact that I don't have an Ethernet card and I will not open up my Dell inless it's ABSOLLLUTELY needed...I need that warranty with my luck.

 

So my final question: Is there any way I can connect these two

 

 

Update: I finally got the Lexar Jump drive to install...problem is, it won't friggin show up as a drive. It's like the PC isn't accessing it even though it knows iit's in there.

 

I'm going to kill someone really quick if I can't figure this out.

[Dr. Tom 0]

driverguide.com has a lot of drivers for just about anything. You need to sign up, but it's free.

 

CD burners come in USB external drives. They're significantly more expensive than their internal kin, but you can get a decent one certainly for under $100, and probably under $80 (I haven't checked the prices in a while, so they may have come down even more). You can also get USB "flash drives," with a 256 MB one checking in at under $50 in most places. You can probably get a good deal on a 512 MB model if you look hard enough.

 

You can connect computers via parallel and serial cables to do data transfers. It's not particularly fast, but it does work. The flash drive might be a better option in terms of speed and convenience, though.

[Hawkius Maximus 0]

Thanks for the Reply Tom.

 

See, I'm at the last stage(..I would hope) wuth my jump drive. I've got it installed on my old machine, but the damn infernal thing won't let me access it. It should pop up as E drive, but it just...is...not...there.

 

If I can get past THAT, then I'm pretty golden. It's not a huge drive, but it's enough to transfer my stuff over a couple thousand trips.

 

I appreciate the help though man, I'm very much at my wits end regarding this thing.