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k as USB Drive type. Use USB-HDD as the Format. Use Fat32 as the File System. 5 Select Run. The utility will then mount the image to the flash memory stick. Once completed, the drive may be ejected.1 Click Start from the system tray and select Contro l Panel from the right-hand side of the menu. 2 Click on Network and Internet. 3 Select View network status and tasks under Network and Sharing Center in the right pane of the window. 4 Select Manage network connections under Tasks in the left pane free 3d model of the window. 5 Locate the Wireless Network Connection icon. If you have a wireless card installed on your computer, it will ap pear in this window.Quick and Easy 1 Be sure to buy a bridged USBUSB cable. Do not use an AA USB cable, which is one that has a PurplePixie full-sized USB connector at both ends. A bridged cable has an electronic monitor in the middle of the cable. Using an AA USB in a .
ter and drag and drop files into the utility that you would like to retrieve on the slave machine. 4 Open the software on the slav e machine and retrieve the files. More Versatile 5 Setting up the connection this way, as opposed to just linking via USB, allows you the flexibility to share printers or even an Internet connection should you later decide to expand your mini-network's capabil ities. Buy a crossover Ethernet cable at any computer supply store. A regular Ethernet cable, in most cases, will not work, althou helvetica font gh there are some network adapters in newer machines that will automatically detect when a standard Ethernet cable has been connec ted directly to another computer. Check the documentation that came with your computer or the website of your network adapter manu PurplePixie facturer. Find out also if your network adapter is configured for gigabit Ethernet. If so, a slightly different cable is required. .
icking on the network icon in the task bar and selecting Network and Sharing Center. 7 Double-click on Unidentified Network. If yo u see the message, Network Discovery and File Sharing are Turned Off, click on that banner and turn on the discovery and file shar ing. Mark this new network as Private in the network discovery dialogue. 8 On the master computer, use the Public or Shared folder to house data you would like to share on both computers. Open Windows Explorer and you should see one of those folders right near person icon the top of the directories. If youd like to pass data back and forth, load the files youd like to share from the slave machine in the slave machines Shared or Public folder.1 Right-click Computer Vista or My Computer XP. Click Manage. 2 Click Devic PurplePixie e Manager on the left-hand side of the window. On the device manager, access the Disk Drives section. 3 Right-click the disk dr .
