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i have a bt home hub and must say i really like it (i know a lot of u guy will be getting ur vodo doll out now ) i have 2 pc in my hous a vista and a xp, the xp machin is older and therfoe i do more things on the vista but i still use my xp. because of this i am forever running up and down the stars with my pen sitck. i would like to know if it is possible to connect a hard drive into the network @ the hub so i can just copy my files over to that then copy on to the other pc. i belive it is posible but im not sure on how to get the hdd to show up on the pc if that makes sencse
SORRY FOR my spelling the spell cheaker dosnt work in opra and IE is not working
as always thanks for the advice zeb__________________________________________________________________________ Sorry for my spelling guys and thanks for reading my post u are all legends in your own rights rig1. pentuim D 2.8ghz. 1gb ram. 160gb hdd.geforce 73000gt gpu m$ vista rig2.P4 @2.2ghz 256mb ram,40gb hdd geforce4 mx m$ XP
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hello - you can certainly add a networked hard disk (look for NAS drives), but if all you want to do is share files between the two PCs its much simpler than that, you can make a drive (or more appropriately a folder on a drive (e.g. C:\Share) available to the other computer(s) on your Network without any extra components. The set up varies between vista and XP. From memory, in XP you go to control Panel>Network Connections and select the adapter for the PC (wired or wireless). You need to check that File and Printer sharing is enabled. Then in Windows explorer you can create/pick a folder to share and give it a name.
On the vista PC you need control panel.network and sharing centre - not near a vista PC but its in that section. then share a folder as above.
you may also need to tweak any firewalls you have running, depending on how they are configured.
NAS drives are great, and handy for back up (also you don't need the other PC turned on), but for your purposes you probably don't need one.
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