If you don't want to mess around in your new computer, you could get a USB HDD enclosure and open the OLD computer and take out the hard drive and put it into the enclosure and plug it into a USB port on the new computer.  Then you will have the old hard drive around and usable via USB if you need to back up something or whatever.   Sometimes Newegg has really good sales on USB HDD enclosures.       --AnnaSummers


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dean Kukral 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Fw: [PCSOFT] Transferring stuff


Take the hard drive out of the old computer and install it in the new
 computer, then copy all the stuff that you want.

 Make sure that before getting inside the computers you have unplugged them!
 Also, try to touch the computer case to ground yourself and get rid of any
 static charge that you have.  Try to not touch anything inside the case
 except for the hard drives, the power plugs, and the ribbon connectors. 
You
 might have to use one of the ribbons from your old computer.  Since I don't
 know anything about the hardware of either computer, nor do I know how
 comfortable you are poking around inside a computer, that is about all I 
can
 say at this point, but, it is easy to move a  hard drive around - you just
 have to watch out for static electricity.

 You will have to make sure that the master/slave jumper setting is correct
 on both of the hard drives, depending on how you install them.

 While you can copy anything, programs that need to be installed may not
work when copied.  It depends on the program.

 When you are done copying stuff, you can put everything back the way it 
was.

 Good luck,

 Dean Kukral

  ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob or Mary Cameron" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:35 AM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Transferring stuff
>
>
> I finally got my new computer set up after it sitting 6 months in the box 
> in my living room.  It has Windows Vista Home Premium.  My antique 300mhz 
> computer has Windows 98SE on it.  The new computer doesn't have a floppy 
> drive, and the old one doesn't had a CD burner.  Can't use Vista's 
> transfer program because it isn't compatible with Win98.  I plugged a 
> flash drive into the old computer and it searched for a driver, but 
> couldn't find one for it.
>
> I've been emailing stuff to myself and then trying to put it where it 
> belongs on the new computer.
>
> I have lots of photos, email and a few simple programs to transfer.  I 
> hope I can get all into Vista somehow.
>
> There MUST be a better way!???????  I have been looking for a cheap 
> external USB drive that i can use with both computers and maybe do the 
> transfer that way.  I don't know much about this sort of thing and almost 
> nothing about Vista.  I almost bought a USB floppy drive today, but it 
> didn't say it would work with Vista...just XP and earlier.
>
> Suggestions, PLEASE!!!!!!  Please feel free to email me.
>
> Thanks any and all.
> Mary Cameron
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