Parallel Network Connection?

[welderjeffo]

Does anybody know if a standard IEEE 1284 printer cable will work to make a direct parallel connection with older rig running W95a, to a newer rig running Win XP ?
The XP rig is on a network with another XP rig, both wired to a router and cable modem.
The W95 rig isn't hooked to anything, it only has a phone modem in it, and I don't have any hardware to hook it up to the XP network.
Since my router is also wireless, I tried a wireless card in the W95 rig, but it wouldn't work.....'incompatible' with W95.
I'm trying to salvage 2Gb of family photos from the slave HD in the W95 rig, which was accidentally formatted.
Help?

 

[S_Doherty]

Would it be possible for you to put the older harddrive into the machine running win xp and just do a simple drive-to-drive transfer? if not then you should get a hold of a crossover cable and do a direct transfer that way

 

[welderjeffo]

update on this;
I sorta got the cable to work, with some rearranging of pins, but the transfer wouldn't work.
So I uninstalled and deleted everything I could to make room on C. (old rig)
I ran PC Inspector File Recovery from C, salvaged what I could from D and saved it to C.
Then I sorted what I wanted to keep, burned it, and put it in the new rig.
BTW..."PCI-file recovery" worked great and it's free.