At 10:24 PM 4/15/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I took a 1GB IDE HD out of an old 386 today and popped it into a new
>system I built - I configured the older drive as Primary IDE Slave.  I
>was gonna pull off all the data files.  The older drive is loaded up w/
>Win95 - the new system is running Win98.  The BIOS on the new system
>recognized the Slave drive fine, however, when I booted into Windows, I
>couldn't see the drive.  I backed out of Windows98 and ran fdisk.  The
>old drive is shown as having one non-Dos partition.
>
>(EDIT)
>Ok, now what do I do, ya'll.......  Am I stuck w/ this?  Going to have
>to sneaker net off all the data?
>
>
>Joan Rapier
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Joan-

You could just pop a network card into each machine, connect them with a
null modem cable ("crossover") and transfer your stuff that way. Network
cards are really cheap these days, and it's ridiculously easy to set up a
peer-to-peer "network" between two machines running 95/98.

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