±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: HighestAce
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6648

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 581
Total: 581
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Home
02: Home
03: Home
04: Home
05: Photo Gallery
06: Photo Gallery
07: Photo Gallery
08: Community Forums
09: Community Forums
10: Photo Gallery
11: Community Forums
12: Home
13: Home
14: Home
15: Home
16: Home
17: Home
18: Home
19: Home
20: Home
21: Home
22: Home
23: News
24: Photo Gallery
25: Home
26: Home
27: Home
28: Home
29: Home
30: Photo Gallery
31: Photo Gallery
32: Photo Gallery
33: Photo Gallery
34: Home
35: Photo Gallery
36: Home
37: Photo Gallery
38: Home
39: Member Screenshots
40: Home
41: Home
42: Home
43: Photo Gallery
44: Home
45: Home
46: Home
47: Home
48: Statistics
49: Photo Gallery
50: Photo Gallery
51: Home
52: News
53: Home
54: Community Forums
55: Home
56: Community Forums
57: Home
58: Member Screenshots
59: Photo Gallery
60: Photo Gallery
61: Home
62: Home
63: Home
64: Home
65: Home
66: Community Forums
67: Community Forums
68: Downloads
69: Community Forums
70: Home
71: Home
72: Community Forums
73: Home
74: Home
75: Home
76: Home
77: Home
78: Home
79: Home
80: Home
81: Home
82: Home
83: Home
84: Home
85: Home
86: Home
87: Photo Gallery
88: Photo Gallery
89: Home
90: Home
91: Photo Gallery
92: Photo Gallery
93: Statistics
94: Home
95: Photo Gallery
96: Downloads
97: Community Forums
98: Photo Gallery
99: Member Screenshots
100: Photo Gallery
101: Photo Gallery
102: Community Forums
103: Community Forums
104: Home
105: Community Forums
106: Photo Gallery
107: Home
108: Home
109: Photo Gallery
110: Statistics
111: Home
112: Home
113: Home
114: Home
115: Community Forums
116: Member Screenshots
117: Photo Gallery
118: Home
119: Community Forums
120: Member Screenshots
121: Community Forums
122: Home
123: Home
124: Photo Gallery
125: Your Account
126: Photo Gallery
127: Photo Gallery
128: Photo Gallery
129: Photo Gallery
130: Community Forums
131: Home
132: Community Forums
133: Home
134: Photo Gallery
135: Photo Gallery
136: Community Forums
137: Photo Gallery
138: Community Forums
139: Photo Gallery
140: Home
141: Community Forums
142: News
143: Community Forums
144: Home
145: Community Forums
146: Downloads
147: Photo Gallery
148: Community Forums
149: Home
150: Member Screenshots
151: Home
152: Community Forums
153: Community Forums
154: Member Screenshots
155: Photo Gallery
156: Community Forums
157: Community Forums
158: Downloads
159: Home
160: Community Forums
161: Photo Gallery
162: Photo Gallery
163: Statistics
164: Photo Gallery
165: Photo Gallery
166: News
167: Photo Gallery
168: Community Forums
169: Community Forums
170: Photo Gallery
171: Community Forums
172: Photo Gallery
173: Photo Gallery
174: News Archive
175: Home
176: Community Forums
177: Community Forums
178: Community Forums
179: Home
180: Your Account
181: Community Forums
182: Home
183: Member Screenshots
184: Member Screenshots
185: Community Forums
186: Home
187: Home
188: Home
189: Home
190: Home
191: Photo Gallery
192: Home
193: Home
194: Community Forums
195: Home
196: Home
197: Home
198: Home
199: Home
200: Home
201: Home
202: Home
203: Member Screenshots
204: Photo Gallery
205: Home
206: Member Screenshots
207: Home
208: Photo Gallery
209: Downloads
210: Photo Gallery
211: Photo Gallery
212: Community Forums
213: Photo Gallery
214: Photo Gallery
215: Home
216: Community Forums
217: Community Forums
218: Photo Gallery
219: Photo Gallery
220: Home
221: Home
222: Home
223: Photo Gallery
224: Home
225: Home
226: Home
227: Home
228: Home
229: Community Forums
230: Home
231: Home
232: Community Forums
233: Home
234: Home
235: Photo Gallery
236: Photo Gallery
237: Home
238: Community Forums
239: Home
240: Community Forums
241: Home
242: Downloads
243: Member Screenshots
244: Member Screenshots
245: Member Screenshots
246: Community Forums
247: Photo Gallery
248: Photo Gallery
249: Photo Gallery
250: Community Forums
251: News
252: Community Forums
253: Photo Gallery
254: Photo Gallery
255: Photo Gallery
256: Home
257: Home
258: Photo Gallery
259: Photo Gallery
260: Home
261: Home
262: Photo Gallery
263: Home
264: Home
265: Home
266: Member Screenshots
267: Home
268: Community Forums
269: Photo Gallery
270: Downloads
271: Photo Gallery
272: Photo Gallery
273: Statistics
274: Home
275: Community Forums
276: Home
277: Member Screenshots
278: Photo Gallery
279: Home
280: Community Forums
281: Member Screenshots
282: Community Forums
283: Community Forums
284: Photo Gallery
285: Photo Gallery
286: Photo Gallery
287: Downloads
288: Photo Gallery
289: Photo Gallery
290: Community Forums
291: Community Forums
292: Community Forums
293: Photo Gallery
294: Community Forums
295: Member Screenshots
296: Photo Gallery
297: News
298: Home
299: Home
300: Photo Gallery
301: Community Forums
302: Community Forums
303: Photo Gallery
304: Photo Gallery
305: Home
306: Community Forums
307: Community Forums
308: Photo Gallery
309: Community Forums
310: Downloads
311: Community Forums
312: Community Forums
313: Home
314: Home
315: Photo Gallery
316: Home
317: Home
318: Home
319: Home
320: Photo Gallery
321: Photo Gallery
322: News
323: News Archive
324: Statistics
325: Downloads
326: Photo Gallery
327: Photo Gallery
328: Photo Gallery
329: Community Forums
330: Photo Gallery
331: Photo Gallery
332: Photo Gallery
333: Photo Gallery
334: Community Forums
335: Photo Gallery
336: Home
337: Photo Gallery
338: Photo Gallery
339: Home
340: Community Forums
341: Downloads
342: Tell a Friend
343: Photo Gallery
344: Home
345: Home
346: Downloads
347: Home
348: Member Screenshots
349: Photo Gallery
350: Photo Gallery
351: Statistics
352: Home
353: Home
354: Home
355: Statistics
356: Statistics
357: Photo Gallery
358: News Archive
359: Community Forums
360: Photo Gallery
361: Photo Gallery
362: Community Forums
363: Photo Gallery
364: Photo Gallery
365: Downloads
366: Community Forums
367: Community Forums
368: Home
369: Home
370: Member Screenshots
371: Home
372: Home
373: Home
374: Home
375: Downloads
376: Home
377: Home
378: Photo Gallery
379: Community Forums
380: Community Forums
381: Community Forums
382: Home
383: Member Screenshots
384: Statistics
385: Photo Gallery
386: Photo Gallery
387: Home
388: Home
389: Home
390: Community Forums
391: Home
392: Home
393: Community Forums
394: Photo Gallery
395: Member Screenshots
396: Home
397: Home
398: Community Forums
399: Home
400: Statistics
401: Home
402: Home
403: Your Account
404: Home
405: Downloads
406: Photo Gallery
407: Community Forums
408: Photo Gallery
409: Home
410: Photo Gallery
411: Photo Gallery
412: Home
413: Home
414: Photo Gallery
415: Home
416: Community Forums
417: Statistics
418: Photo Gallery
419: Community Forums
420: Community Forums
421: News
422: Photo Gallery
423: Community Forums
424: Home
425: Home
426: Community Forums
427: Home
428: Home
429: Home
430: Statistics
431: Member Screenshots
432: Photo Gallery
433: Community Forums
434: Home
435: Home
436: Home
437: Home
438: Photo Gallery
439: Photo Gallery
440: Statistics
441: Photo Gallery
442: News
443: Photo Gallery
444: Community Forums
445: Photo Gallery
446: Photo Gallery
447: News
448: Home
449: Home
450: Community Forums
451: Statistics
452: Member Screenshots
453: Statistics
454: Photo Gallery
455: Photo Gallery
456: Home
457: Home
458: Home
459: Home
460: Photo Gallery
461: Home
462: Member Screenshots
463: Member Screenshots
464: Home
465: Home
466: Photo Gallery
467: Photo Gallery
468: Home
469: Home
470: Community Forums
471: Photo Gallery
472: Photo Gallery
473: Community Forums
474: Home
475: Home
476: Home
477: Photo Gallery
478: Photo Gallery
479: Home
480: Community Forums
481: Community Forums
482: Community Forums
483: Member Screenshots
484: Photo Gallery
485: Community Forums
486: Home
487: Downloads
488: Home
489: Photo Gallery
490: Community Forums
491: Community Forums
492: Home
493: Home
494: Home
495: Statistics
496: Home
497: Photo Gallery
498: Home
499: Home
500: Home
501: Photo Gallery
502: Photo Gallery
503: Photo Gallery
504: Photo Gallery
505: Photo Gallery
506: Photo Gallery
507: Photo Gallery
508: Photo Gallery
509: Home
510: Home
511: Member Screenshots
512: Home
513: Photo Gallery
514: Your Account
515: Photo Gallery
516: Home
517: Home
518: Community Forums
519: Photo Gallery
520: Home
521: Downloads
522: Photo Gallery
523: Photo Gallery
524: Community Forums
525: Downloads
526: Community Forums
527: Community Forums
528: Member Screenshots
529: Your Account
530: Photo Gallery
531: Photo Gallery
532: Home
533: Downloads
534: Community Forums
535: Photo Gallery
536: Photo Gallery
537: Member Screenshots
538: Photo Gallery
539: Community Forums
540: Community Forums
541: Photo Gallery
542: Statistics
543: Photo Gallery
544: Photo Gallery
545: Home
546: Photo Gallery
547: Photo Gallery
548: Photo Gallery
549: Photo Gallery
550: Home
551: Home
552: Community Forums
553: News
554: Home
555: Home
556: Community Forums
557: Home
558: Home
559: Photo Gallery
560: Community Forums
561: Community Forums
562: Home
563: Home
564: Home
565: Home
566: Home
567: Statistics
568: Member Screenshots
569: Downloads
570: Photo Gallery
571: Statistics
572: News Archive
573: Statistics
574: Photo Gallery
575: Statistics
576: Home
577: Photo Gallery
578: Photo Gallery
579: Photo Gallery
580: Photo Gallery
581: Home

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
Data transfer options? :: Archived
Resolve issues with your computer problems here or read about the latest computer parts and information.
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  Hardware

Topic Archived View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:02 am
Post subject: Data transfer options?

Man, it's getting harder and harder to do the old "put the old hard drive in the new system as a slave and copy yur old data over" thing.

My new PC uses that funky-cool (and wicked-performing) SATA interface, lil' teeny red cable. I thought, cool, I'll take the old WD 160-Gig HD from the old system, plug 'er into the IDE interface (basically disconnect the DVD and CD-ROM and use that i'face", and move everything over...

Problem! BIOS saw the drive but XP sure wouldn't. I mean, it shows up in Device Mangler but it sure won't mount the partition and show it as drive D. I'm very certain it's because how I tricked XP into seeing the thing as one big 160G partition anyway way back when I first set it up. XP wanted a 137Gig max (see Hangman's "Large Hard Drives thread here). Who knows, it being flagged as an XP boot drive could have caused some contention too. I tried about 6 or 7 ways from Sunday with different jumper settings, BIOS settings, etc, and finally decided to hang it up.

Imagine my supreme dismay when I slid it back in the original PC and......it wouldn't boot!!! Oh cripes! Data....documents....old emails.......family pix.......my CFS3 and FS9 ZIP files collection.....not to mention a coupla year's worth of screenshots (yeah I'm sentimaental and keep all that). One thing is, I picked up Norton Ghost with the new PC so I can do a complete image backup to DVD's once I get everything settled down.

Long story short is that by going to an entirely different jumper config and eliminating the other smaller slave drive that was in the original PC, it's booting again now, and all is well for the moment. But I'm not moving that drive again! OH...and that smaller slave drive? New PC wouldn't see it either...hmmmmm.......

So......what other decent (fairly fast) and efficient methods can y'all recommend? The old PC has a CD-ROM burner (no DVD) so I can put buncha stuff on CD....but thats likely a ton o' CD's. Also, thinking that once I get the wireless network card I have installed and working, I could do a little home-network thing and move stuff over point-to-point.

Sure would be cool if you could just string a USB cable between two systems, have 'em see each other, and start shoving data around. Never read if you could tho.

Opinions/Ideas, anyone?

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:20 am
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

Ohhh...sorry, have a habit of asking the question and then researching....

USB point-to-point can be done (never looked too hard at this newfangled USB stuff, D'uhh)...and an interesting multi-part dealy on it can be found here:

www.wown.com/j_helmig/w2kusbip.htm

Anyone ever done this? If not, I'll probably guinea-pig it and report back how it works.....

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:44 am
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

D'oh!

Geez....sometimes, you don't see the solution until you ask the question.

Both systems have regular network cards in 'em, LOL!

A crossover cable between 'em, a little TCP/IP configuration, and I should be shovin' data across at 100Mbs instead of 12 that USB provides. And I can string it across two rooms in the house for the time it takes for that.

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
AARP-StepChild
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 06, 2005
Posts: 43
Location: Hampton Va. US
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:07 am
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. No, really, I was LOL
I need to do that myself, but going through a router. Any need for the network neighborhood setup? or can it just be TCP/IP?

_________________

"THIS is my Kung Fu, and it is STRONG"
TS Server: 151.199.149.217:8770
members.cox.net/raynmanf037/
mysite.verizon.net/rfriedenberg/
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:13 am
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

Depends, from what I've learned. The network connection wizrd should pop up and walk you through it. Not gonna go through the router myself, if I can help it. Got a 50' ethernet cable that I'm gonna plug into a coupler and then to a crossover cable (so the whole schmeil loks like a x-over) and plug the two NIC's together. From what I've read, should work fine and it seems simple.

Information from the source can be found here and google on the subject will get you a lot more.

www.microsoft.com/wind...fault.mspx

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
CrashEd
CrasherMaster

Offline Offline
Joined: Nov 13, 2004
Posts: 450

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:15 am
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

LOL!! Stoopy glad we could help out. Sounds like that will work just fine to me .

When i run a router i used the router software to link all the computers togther and it seamed to work real good.

_________________


Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:23 am
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

Yup, once again, good ol' Com-C, just by it's very presence, delivered a very good solution!

Hmm! Good idea there, CrashEd! I'll check into it if the NIC-to-NICS connection doesn't pan out. This is gonna be a one-night shot (I hope) and then, the old gal gets wiped out, a fresh WinXP install (with NORMAL partition sizes, grrrrr!) and a Linksys wireless E'net card. Then she starts her ground-based retirement with Age of Mythology, etc.....gonna be kinda like gardening for her in retirement I guess. She just got one last big mission ahead of her is all!

Hey guess what....the new PC doesn't come with a old-school gameport of course...just tons of USB and Firewire ports etc. So now my faithful old (gameport i'face) ThrustMaster rudder pedals and CH Flightstick Pro are disconnected, sitting in a corner.....damn I hate to see them go.......I'm thinking about having them bronzed and hanging 'em on the wall with a plaque. Had 'em since FS95 and Aces Over the Pacific, flew the Beech Baron round the world with 'em, shot down thousands of AI planes and I dont know how many online pilots (at least 10, I think lol).....just can't throw 'em in the basement ya know?

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
CrashEd
CrasherMaster

Offline Offline
Joined: Nov 13, 2004
Posts: 450

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:46 am
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

You should be able to get a pci gameport i think.

_________________


Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:53 am
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

Yeah, I'm thinking about it. They're just so beat up, been a lotta miles put on 'em. Springs in the rudder pedals broke long ago (kinda cool though if you need constant hard rudder input, like when one wingtip is shot off), the potentiometer is scratchy and twitchy and it's hard to get right rudder.....I can rotate a helo to the left like nobody's business tho. The Flightstick's springs are pretty well worn out too, it still centers but I didn't realize how light the springs were until I went and got a USB stick. Like night n'day.

Maybe I'll overhaul both of 'emand put it all back in service. None of it ever really broke, that's the thing I can't get over!

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
AARP-StepChild
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 06, 2005
Posts: 43
Location: Hampton Va. US
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:27 pm
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

google to the rescue!! smartftp and awaaaaaay we go. And I hope you didn't get a Logitech joystick, had real bad luck with them. Three in a row went bad after about 2-3 months. All of them the right side just quit on me.

_________________

"THIS is my Kung Fu, and it is STRONG"
TS Server: 151.199.149.217:8770
members.cox.net/raynmanf037/
mysite.verizon.net/rfriedenberg/
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
JG300-Holmes
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 211
Location: Straight Outta Jersey
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:13 pm
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

coming in late as usual, but i can actually help you out a bit with your dilema on the pedals...i love the CH pedals and althought they do have a USB version (I acutally have both...cause after i got the USB, i realised I needed gameport to connect to my joystick first...but that's a whle nother thing in itself)

back to the point at hand though, the good ol' RadioShack has a solution for everything and this time it's part # 26-164

it's like $17 so it's almost half the cost of a cheap joystick, but it's for nastalgia's sake



click on that image and it should hook you up...i think

but yea i found that sucker back in the day when i was trying to get my old FCS from thrustmaster to work with the new USB of like 5 years ago or whatever

only thing is for the pedals it shuld be fine, for the stick you might miss out on a little functionality because it makes a generic joystick and i can't remember how many buttons it has, but it's prolly worth a shot

in hindsight i'm remebering that you don't have a laptop so yea, CrashEd's thing about the PCI gameport would work too, also though if your stuff is in bad shape it might be worth it to just get the new line from CH in the future, but this might be one of the cheaper intermediate steps

especially cause i just like having them around, you know, us engineers can get into trouble when we have a generic thing that lets us put stuff that shouldnt be go together, together...lol start thinking, what else can i use this for.....

~S~

_________________
-Holmes
Back to top
View user's profile Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:45 pm
Post subject: Re: Data transfer options?

Excellent! Really useful info Holmes, Thanks!

OK and engineers also like to have a plan too....so the plan is to refurb the springs in both and also the pot in the rudder pedals.....get some nice teflon sliders on the bottom of the swingarm too. Then use this Radio Shack doohicky to hookumup.....will use the current USB stick uin the meantime....sounds like a weener to me!

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  Hardware
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 6 Hours

Archive Revive
Username:
This is an archived topic - your reply will not be appended here.
Instead, a new topic will be generated in the active forum.
The new topic will provide a reference link to this archived topic.