Originally posted by dayneh88
no i mean with a standard usb cable in xp
No. The reason is because of termination. It's kind of difficult to explain, so I'll try my best.
The head of a USB cable is made of two parts, the sending side (we'll call it S), and the receiving side (we'll call it R). There is one S and one R on each side of the USB cable. so your cable looks like this:
SR--------------------------------------------SR
When data is sent from a device, it must go to the appropriate side of the cable. Thus, If I'm sending from left to right, it should match up like this:
SR
RS
I'm sending from one side to the receiving end of the other.
However, computers are fixed USB devices (as with all cable terminators). Thus, the S and the R of the computers are the same. When you send from one computer to the next, you are actually sending from one side to the sending part of the other:
SR
SR
Thus, the data will not transfer. You need a intermediate device that will reverse the SR signals so that the computers can read the information. The only way to do this is with a USB file transfer cable.