On Jul 28, 8:33*pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
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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From what you've said, the dude has a bigger problem. He is not
making backups. If he were, you could backup one machine and restore
to another. The solution with to get an external hard drive and copy
everything to it. The pick and choose what you want to move between
computers after everything is on the external drive.

However, putting in a small (cheap) network is a better idea in the
long run but doesn't address the backup issue.