connecting 2 laptops with LAN cable Closed

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Hello,
I have a Hp Laptop with windows XP as the OS and an Acer laptop with Windows Vista as the OS.

The problem with the Hp laptop is that it doesnot load into windows ( it loads till prompting for a password but doesnot load windows - it accepts the password and a message says that its loading my personal settings and then it logs off). I wanted to restore windows but dont want to loose some data that is very important to me. I have performed the harddrive test from bios settings and it had passed both the quick and compressive test.so the hard drive is working fine.

What i would like to know is : if i can connect the Hp laptop with windows XP to a Acer laptop with windows Vista with a LAN cable and transfer the data that i require from my Hp laptop ? If i can how do i go about doing so.

Thanks

xpcman · Answer

If you can't get the laptop to boot then you can't connect them with a cable. 

 You can remove the hard drive form the broken laptop and buy a USB adapter that will allow you to connect the hard drive to the working computer.  There are two types of adapters. One is a simple cable that you use for a temporary connection and one that converts the drive to a portable external drive.   Good Luck

xpcman · Answer

You can connect the two computers with a "crossover" cable (not a regular LAN cable).  But, unless you have "shared" the entire C drive you will not have much luck in accessing the data.

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