Copying off pictures from a hard drive; "upgrading" a box to XP
Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 10:31 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3588 messages posted)
|[...]The solution [Gateway will] recommend to problems
|is the one that is the most convenient to THEM[...]
|Having said that, Gateway along with many other computer suppliers
|outsource their tech support to companies which specialize in that business.
|[. . .]
|The salesperson who recommended FreeAgent to you for your Win 98 machine
|deserves a smack on the head.
| Arminius
|
These days I just shake my head at the mess my species has made
of the way things are done on this planet (...and I start with Micro$oft).
|There is more than one way to save your pictures
|but since you already said you wanted to upgrade to Windows XP[,]
|if I were in your shoes I would remove the old hard drive with the pictures on it
|and replace it with a new one and do a clean install of XP on the new drive.
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Not a terrible idea--and something C K didn't address directly.
It does, however, fail to include an admonition about the all-important
Is-Your-Hardware-$talwart-Enough-To-Run-XP (compatibility) check
as previously mentioned by C K.
...not to mention the Are-Device-Drivers-Even-Available-For-This-Hardware
aspect.
There's nothing worse than paying M$ for something you can't use anyway.
|Then I would install the old drive as a slave
|so you can copy your pictures to the new drive and to FreeAgent.
|
This *may* turn out to be the least painful solution.
Once you remove the $$ factor (what with Linux being FREE software
--both gratis and libre), it rivals Steve's **bootable Linux CD** notion.
Alternately, if the OP's hardware is going to run like a snail under XP
(or not at all), she could put W98 on that new drive and proceed as stated.
She would end up with an old drive (of somewhat questionable reliability)
as extra disk space.
To the OP:
Take this experience as a warning from your preferred deity or philosophical concept.
Establish a **PERIODIC** backup regimen and start maintaining backups.
You have evidence of what heartaches result from NOT doing this.
Do NOT rely on a single copy;
DO locate a copy remotely (as I already advised);
and especially do NOT make that "backup" copy
the slave hard drive located in the same box as your boot drive
(a "mirror" is NOT a backup).
See also "questionable reliability" (above).
|The odds are that your old motherboard cannot recognize
|more than 127 Gigabytes of hard drive space (and perhaps less)
|
A bit more related stuff:
cache of http://www.hexff.com/w98_hd.php
Boiled down, it says *If you can avoid it, don't use Micro$oft's crappy utilities;
use the ones the hardware vendor supplies.*
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