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Fun of a Lifetime: Windows 98 files to Windows Vista

Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered User regular
edited June 2008 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Here's the quick skinny:

I need to get files off of a Win98SE computer onto a Windows Vista computer. Here's the hurdles:
  1. No CD burner on the Win98 computer or any other data copying methods other than through external
  2. So far, networking the two through a Cat5 has been a nightmare and flat out won't work
  3. Only USB 1.1 ports which, for my USB 2.0 external hard drive and memory stick, have proven problematic (the memory stick freezes and the external isn't picked up at all)
  4. Western Digital has no Win98SE drivers for the External Hard Drive and fuck them for it
  5. The Cat5 Connection is iffy and the serial port on the old computer is screwed
Now, I don't really want to spend any real amount of money on getting this data, any of you have any work-around suggestions?

I'm tapped out of ideas.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Winzip the files, upload them to Rapidshare/Megaupload and download them to the Vista machine?

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Pull the hard drive out of the Win98 machine, plug it into the Vista machine, boot to Vista, and copy at will.

    Warning: it won't work the other way around.

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  • TransparentTransparent Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I second the post above this.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    And I second that post as well.

    Lock it, we're done here.

    Oh, the last problem was that I'm on 56k here. Otherwise I would have never made the thread.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Glad I could help. Remember, kids, when in doubt, rip the computer open.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Daedalus wrote: »
    Glad I could help. Remember, kids, when in doubt, rip the computer open.
    You know, I wanted to avoid that since there really isn't anywhere grounded in this apartment.

    But fuck it.

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  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Zen Vulgarity wrote: »
    Daedalus wrote: »
    Glad I could help. Remember, kids, when in doubt, rip the computer open.
    You know, I wanted to avoid that since there really isn't anywhere grounded in this apartment.

    But fuck it.
    Really? You're only handling a hard drive. Just touch some metal before you touch any of the electronics (if the case is metal that works too) and you're good.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    The reason your networking attempt didn't work is very likely that you were using a standard "straight through" cable. You need a crossover cable to connect one PC directly to another. Yes, it's possible for a NIC to autosense and correct for this. Very few do. Even fewer did in 1998. If you had the correct cable it'd just be a matter of setting static IP addresses on the same subnet on both PCs, enabling file sharing on the 98 machine, and dragging and dropping on the Vista box.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Which is what I thought at first, and it took me way too long to figure out.

    But I'm done.

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  • DeciusDecius I'm old! I'm fat! I'M BLUE!Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Another option for future reference. If you can't or are unable to open the recipient box you always one of these to read the drive.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Pheezer wrote: »
    The reason your networking attempt didn't work is very likely that you were using a standard "straight through" cable. You need a crossover cable to connect one PC directly to another. Yes, it's possible for a NIC to autosense and correct for this. Very few do. Even fewer did in 1998.
    Every Mac since then has :)

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    ben0207 wrote: »
    Pheezer wrote: »
    The reason your networking attempt didn't work is very likely that you were using a standard "straight through" cable. You need a crossover cable to connect one PC directly to another. Yes, it's possible for a NIC to autosense and correct for this. Very few do. Even fewer did in 1998.
    Every Mac since then has :)

    I did not know that, but that's damn cool.

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