I bought a new IDE hard drive for my laptop. Does anyone know how I can copy files from the current hard drive to the new one? I've tried Norton Ghost 2003 using a crossover USB cable and the peer-to-peer option to connect the laptop to my desktop, but it gave me an error saying that it can't find a USB host to host cable connected. Does anyone have any other ideas? Obviously, I can't just hook that hard drive to my desktop because there's no power connection. Thanks!

There are laptop adapters you can buy (pretty cheap) that will allow you to hook up your laptop hard drives to your desktop. Look on e-bay. Also if it is just files (and not the OS) then you could connect your laptop to your desktop (if it has NIC) using an RJ45 crossover cable (cheap again) and network the two and then do the transfer. You can then tranfers the same way back once you have installed your OS to the new HDD. Hope it has helped. ___________________________________________ ☺ When everything else fails, read the instructions.