re: Moving stuff from Windows 98 to Vista
Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(993 messages posted)
This is what I've done repeatedly in that situation.
- Take the drive out of the old computer.
- Swap the little jumper so the drive is configured as SLAVE.
- Wrap the old drive loosely in a plastic bag.
- Open up the new computer and connect the old drive to the unused plug on the
IDE cable.
- If the IDE cable has only 1 plug then buy a 2 plug cable for $3.
- The old drive will probably appear as D:.
- Make a folder called OLD98 or something like that.
- Copy the entire old drive into that folder.
Then at your leisure you'll figure out what you want to transfer.
This takes me about 2 hours to do. I don't bother to screw the old drive into the
mounting rack for such a short time. That's why I have the plastic bag. The old
drive will be lying across the metal edge of the computer case and it has a bare
circuit board underneath which could get shortcircuited if I didn't have the bag
around it. Drives can overheat while they're running so I don't seal up the bag.
I knew a guy who overruled me and set up a temporary network to transfer the data
from one computer to another. It took him 2 weeks of weekends to do what I can do
in 2 hours with just a screwdriver.
On Monday, June 18, 2007 at 12:24 pm, Ed wrote:
>I have an old computer with Windows 98 (NOT Second Edition). I have just bought
a
>new computer that has Vista. Is there any way to move stuff from the old computer
>to the new. All the portable and flash drives I've seen are only compatible with
>Windows 98 SE. Is there anything I can do?
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