"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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A fellow I know, but never met. He's got two computers.
Desktop running XP, and laptop running Vista. He wants to
copy a couple gb of files, from one to the other.

So far, he's been copying some with a flash drive, and dump
them onto the other computer. It's taking a long time.

Suppose he takes a USB cable, from one computer to the
other. Would each computer show up as another drive, to the
other? Use windows explorer to click and drag and drop? Send
the data through the USB cable.

And what if one of the computers was turned off? Would the
USB cable provide enough power to spin the other drive, and
allow the data transfer?

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Christopher A. Young
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Is he using USB-1 or USB-2.

I have an XP system and I replaced the USB-1 card with a USB-2 card and the
speed of the USB drive is very much faster. I would guess it is close to the
speed of my hard drive.

Freckles