Want to transfer files to new computer without floppy drive
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 11:36 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|I'm sure gewg_ will make a comment about this.
| Keith Stanier
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Here I am.
|What I would do if I were you is buy a USB Flash Drive/Pen.
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At first I thought Marina might be trying to make a bootable disk, so I let it be.
Now that it's obvious that that's not the case,
thumbdrives (another name for them) *are* the way to go.
|Then you will be able to drag and drop
|all the files you want to save/transfer onto the flash drive.
|You will be able to use this new drive on your new computer,
|which you won't need software for.
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21st Century operating systems (not just Microsoft's)
all support USB out of the box. Very cool.
The *doesn't need burning software* angle is nice too.
Unlike plastic disks, thumbdrives are completely reusable.
They are also faster to write to.
|You will need one that is Win98SE compatable.
|Meaning it comes with software or you can download software for use on Win98SE,
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YES. The **main** thing you are trying to avoid is a non-compatibility headache.
|...there are loads available.
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If a company has gone to the effort to support YOUR operating system,
YES, *that* is the company that deserves to get your money.
...and as we always say AVOID PROBLEMS
and READ THE PACKAGE before handing over your money.
|I have 7 Kingston and 3 PQI drives.
|The 2GB Kingston is the biggest drive they do for Win98 and they are quite cheap.
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Folks got used to thinking of these as exotic.
The prices are VERY reasonable now---and you can find them EVERYWHERE.
My local discount electronics shop (Fry's)
almost always has one on special in their ad.
Radio Shack is another easy local source that often has them on special.
|I've just bought 2 [off] e-Bay for £13 with P&P. Do a search on e-Bay.
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Yup. It's duck soup to find one online as well.
The reason Keith thought I would respond is that
Nathan Lineback has gathered together **every P&P ID number as he could find**
and has included *every one of them* in his Win9x USB Mass Storage Device Driver.
cache of http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html
The chances of his driver not working with *all* your thumbdrives is very small.
I find it incredulous that Keith has said this doesn't work with *any* of his devices.
The way 21st Century OSes can support any of these devices
makes me all the more dubious when Keith says that Nathan didn't get it right.
...but, even with the availability of Nathan's device driver for pre-WinME systems,
as we have said,
try NOT to give your money to companies who stick out their tongues at you.
As to Jack's mention of zip files, I see little reason for that.
The typical CD holds 650MB--and CD blanks with more capacity are readily available.
You would have to have 450 completely-full floppies to use up the capacity of a CD
and 90 completely-full floppies to fill up my smallest thumbdrive (128MB).
Only after that would you need the additional headache of zipping.
If you get error messages from burning software that filenames are too long,
THEN you might think about zip files.
- Written in response to:
- re: Floppy transfer (Keith Stanier: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 4:40 am)
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