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re: Floppy transfer
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 4:02 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Marina
(3 messages posted)
Before I wrote the message about Floppy transfer, I saw the USB Floppy and was aiming
for that. I just wanted to know some opinions from the experts.
Thanks for your information; it was very informative and appreciated.
Marina.
On Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 2:01 pm, Richard Harris wrote:
>One free CD burner that works well for me is called Deepburner. It is a self-contained
>program, just unzip and run, no installation required. I am running it under XP,
>but it claims to work on 98(original) and higher:
>
>http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download
>
>Note: They offer both a free version and a shareware version, which does more for
>a price. For simply burning data file to a CD-R (write once media), the free version
>is OK.
>
>Comment: The suggestions to use email or a pen-drive are both good ideas, in principle.
> email is limited in the size of attachments, but mutiple emails can be sent. See
>further down for thoughts on pen-drives.
>
>For "zipping", try the free program called 7-zip.
>
>http://www.7-zip.org/
>
>Note that picture files (i.e., JPGs) do not compress much. However, zipping can
>also be used to make collections to reduce the number of total files.
>
>As for pen drives, many only support XP and above. Some offer drivers for 98SE,
>but not 98. Few support plain 98.
>
>But, a simple way around the limitations of 98 is to to download a free "live" LINUX
>image and burn it to a CD on any computer. "live" means that the PC boots from
the
>CD, and nothing is installed on your hard drive. This requires a PC that can boot
>from CD, but most win98 vintage PC can do that. However, you might need to change
>the boot order in the BIOS to CD before hard drive. LINUX will then have native
>support for USB devices, like pen drives. Just be sure to plug in the pen drive
>before booting from the CD.
>
>Finally, bear in mind that a USB, self-powered floppy can be added to any modern
>PC for occassional use, then unplugged when not in use. These are very cheap.
Do
>a search on "USB floppy".
>
>
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