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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 1638526" data-attributes="member: 3854">Well, hell. Open the boxes to put the old HD in the new box, and found out that the new box doesn't have a cable for a slave HD. The HD cable has just one connection besides the one for the motherboard. Found out that Windows XP has a "Help and Support Center" built in to help folks like me transfer files from the old computer to the new. I just needed a 9-pin serial cable. Went to four stores - Walmart, Office Depot, Officemax, and Best Buy - no one had a 9-pin serial cable. The guy at Best Buy said the connection could be made with a parallel cable, so I got one and brought it home.Luckily, the XP Help and Support Center said that this should work. I hooked up the cable, turned on the old computer, and walked through the steps to set up the connection. Seemed to be easy. But nope, the connection didn't work.At the end of the Help and Support Center page on making a parallel connection, in the Notes section after the instructions, it says that the old computer has to be running Win 2000 or XP. My old computer is Win 98. Why the hell didn't the Help and Support Center say this at the beginning, before one goes through all the hook up and configuration?Anyway. Two tries have failed.Quasqueton</blockquote>