Connecting two laptops.

Gadgets and Devices Laptops & AIO Desktops
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This is probably a pretty basic question but…

one of my laptops is messed up and needs to be formatted and before I do it I want to get off the files, word documents and stuff. I can only get to the screen when it comes up saying:

\windowszsystem32zconfig\system missing or corrupt

i only have an ethernet cable but I’m going to get a USB cable so I can connect them. I know for a ethernet cable i need to configure all that IP stuff and I cant even get onto windows on the bust computer so I was wondering if it will even work if I use a usb cable?

A guy told me once the drive isnt physically broken I can access the files but when I connect the ethernet nothing happens since I cant configure it.

Any one know if the USB cable will do the trick? I just dont really see how I can get files off it if windows wont even load up on it.

What do you think?

              Dave
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Boot your machine using a Live CD like Ubuntu or Knoppix or Bart PE ( http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) , that will allow you to configure the network.

But you need a Crossover cable to connect directly to another laptop. Normal Lan cable wont help. If you use a normal LAN cable, you need a hub or router.

Easier will be to boot from a Live CD and copy the files to an USB drive.

My sugesstion-Use Bart PE- it has NTFS read/write capability and is basically a stripped down version of XP.

Hope this helps

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yup he’s correct…

i don know if bart pe has usb support… but new ubuntu ahs ntfs write support… so live cd can do all u need…