If the 95 PC can not be made to handle the USB flash drive, consider removing the 
hard drive and either (1) mounting it inside the Vista PC, or (b) mounting it inside 
a USB 2.0 encloser (cheap from any PC store).  

Note that if you choose plan (b), then after you have transferred files, you can 
toss the 95 hard drive (likely very small) and replace it with any modern IDE/ATA 
hard drive that you happen to find on sale, or one that someone is tossing due to 
upgrading their PC to an even larger hard drive.  The result will be a modern USB 
2.0 external hard drive that is perfect for saving backups of personal files.  

An exteranl USB hard drive is also be a good place to store images of the Vista C: 
drive for that day, eventually, when something will go wrong and the Vistas PC will 
not boot.  Common imaging software includes Norton GHOST and Acronis TrueImage.  
Other options are mentioned at the following website, under backup (left side of 
main screen).

http://www.majorgeeks.com/

Site is currently down, but was up yesterday, and I expect it back soon.







On Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 4:42 pm, debbie wrote:

>Im trying to help a friend transfer files from her old computer w/ OS Win95 to her 

>new laptop w/OS Vista. I thought I could just use a flash drive (which would be 
so 

>easy) until it occured to me that the flash drive driver may not be recognized by 

>Win95. Any suggestions on this? I was really trying to get away with NOT having 
to 

>use a data transfer cable.

>

>Thanks! 

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