Jan,

There is a MUCH easier way to do what you want. Just use the "Files and
Settings Transfer Wizard" included with Windows XP. Just insert your Windows
XP CD into your Windows 98 machine and let it autostart. At the Welcome
screen select "Perform additional tasks". On the next screen select
"Transfer files and settings". This will launch the wizard which will walk
you through all of the steps necessary to transfer not only "My Documents"
and "Favorites" but also email settings and OS customizations/preferences
that you may have set.

Steve Polatas

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Mayer [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Win 98 vs Win XP

You can copy the contents of the  "my documents" and "favorites" folders to
one or more floppies or burn them to a CD. Then later copy them to the
folders created by XP. This is assuming that you are changing the OS on a
single computer. If you have one computer with 98 and another with XP, there
are several ways including the foregoing. I would temporarily remove the
hard drive from the 98 computer and attach it as a second hard drive to the
XP computer, copy the folders to the first hard drive on the XP, and then
reinstall the hard drive back in the 98 computer. Of course if you are going
to dispose of the 98 computer, you could install the second hard drive in
the XP computer and use it for data backup. 
When using the hard drive as a second drive, the jumpers need to be changed
to have it be a "slave" drive.

Tom Mayer

Jan wrote:
> Please help with this evering ending problem I have tried to resolve
>
> How can I Transfer all of My Document files and my Favorite files from
> Win 98 to Win XP ?
>
> Thank You,
> Jan
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