Dial-Up Networking File Transfer

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I have an old Windows 95 computer (pre-USB) and I'm unable to add Ethernet support to it. I have a lot of old files on it that I need to transfer to a newer computer for backup. Some of them were small enough for me to store on floppy disks but there's still a lot of relatively large files that I need to transfer. I tried removing the hard drive and directly reading it through an adapter on the new computer but the hard drive was compressed using drive space and is unreadable on the newer OS's.

The only way I can think of now to transfer the files is over some kind of dial-up networking between the two computers. Is that even possible though? The newer computer does have a USB dialup modem but I don't know how to get the two computers to talk to each other to transfer files. Or is there perhaps another way to transfer the files or dialup internet software that's still compatible with Windows 95?
 
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It's a PCI dial up modem.
 
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I would say remove the pci dialup modem and install a network card. But if you have an older one try that it might be compatible with 95. If you buy a new one your might have a hard time finding one that has drivers for 95.

Another option might be if you can find a extremely old version of Nero or some other cd-burning software that will run on 95 and install that plus a cd burner, and burn the data to a CD.

I have one more idea but its lengthy and complex let me know what you think of the first 2.
 
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I haven't been able to find any network cards yet that are compatible with Windows 95 but I'll keep looking. I've tried CD burning software before but there's not enough hard drive space left on that computer to install the burning software and I'm unable to free up the necessary space.
 
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You might have to look on ebay for a older network card. Or depending on how much you are willing to spend look for a old coputer running 95 or 98 with either a network card or USB ports to put your hard drive in.

Another idea is remove the CD-ROM drive and install a second hard drive in the FAT or FAT32 format and copy call your files to that.

Ok Here is my last idea:

First thing is you will have to clone your hard drive using a program called clonezilla, clonezilla will make a complete image of your hard drive. Once you have the image created restore that image using clonezilla to a larger IDE hard drive. On the safe side plug the hard drive you are planing to restore to in the 95 computer and make sure the BIOS will see it. Once the image is restored to the hard drive download a program called gparted. You can get it from the Ultimate Boot CD. Use gparted to expand the partition to use the full space on the new hard drive. If you file system on 95 is FAT that will be only 2 GB. If your original drive is already 2 GB then create a new partition on the hard drive that is uncompressed to copy the files to that then you can plug that hard drive into the new computer. If you do resize the partition you will get a file system check that might run when you first start up windows let it run.
 
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I've ordered the extra HDD to try your idea. In the meantime, I noticed on Windows 95 and on my old Windows XP computer that there's a program called HyperTerminal for dialup communications between devices. There's an option in the program for file transfers. It seems I can possibly send and receive files between computers through their modems. I'm not sure how to use hyperterminal though. Has anyone here ever used hyperterminal before?
 
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If it's a matter of needing a dial tone to make it work, then what if I have two phone lines available to me with two different phone numbers? One line is regular landline while the other line is VOIP. Could I just have the two computers call each other and then use hyperterminal to transfer the files?

 
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Ok, I'll give it a try when I get the chance to. Before I try it, I've heard from others that dial-up internet doesn't really work well, if at all, on VOIP connections. Lol I'm guessing this forum doesn't get dial-up networking questions much anymore?
 
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Null modem cable. That is if you have two computers with serial ports. Failing that, run to the store get a USB to serial adapter for your modern computer and do a file transfer across it.

Unstoppable copier, XCopy, whatever you want to use. Its sloooooow, but completely doable.

Also, a dial tone is not required for dial up modem to dial up modem.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transferring_Data_between_Standard_Dial-Up_Modems
 
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