re: Moving stuff from Windows 98 to Vista
Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ken T
(1 messages posted)
I tried this method of attaching the old hard drive to the new Vista Quad-Core PC,
but it looks as though the cables are not the same. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for the help!
On Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 4:43 pm, dhm wrote:
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>This is what I've done repeatedly in that situation.
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>- 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.
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>Then at your leisure you'll figure out what you want to transfer.
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>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.
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>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.
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