Biting the bullet and why I may be a little scarce.

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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Yesterday the printer gasped its last breath. Scanner was painting big rainbow down every page. Monitor turns yellow then white. Computer getting more obstinate. I'm on win95 and nothing works with that anymore.

Off to circuit city.

HP a220n Athlon @ 2.06Gz.

Proview `17" monitor

HP printer, scanner copier -- 2175

Got to get it up and running and try to figure out how to get info off old computer onto new.

Ideas?
 
You're probably going to XP or 2000, right? So you know that most (probably all) of your old software won't run on the the new machine, and that you will have to buy upgrades/new versions.

So what you want to do is copy the DATA from the old drive, right?

I would think that once you have the new machine set up the way you want it, you should be able to temporarily install your old hard drive on it, and simply copy the data.

Another option is a program called PCAnywhere, by Symantic, which does PC-to-PC copying, via a null-modem cable. I've seen it advertised between $20 and $50.

Maybe Circuit City could do it for you. Don't know what kind of service they have.
 
Staright from the mouth of my systems administrator !!

"Right Dude

Patitioning
by far the easiest way of partitioning a disk is with "Partition Magic" a program made by powerquest
because it gives you the chance to resize exhisting partitions without destroying the data on it
now you could go out and buy this or you could download (a not so legit copy) from

http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/~unsal/downloads/tools/PartitionMagic/fo-pm8.zip

or

ftp://ftp.iitp.ru/pub/dsk_tools/fo-pm8.zip

or do a google search for "fo-pm8.zip"

then copy the old shite onto the new partition

Robert is as they say your parents brother"

Hope this helps Uncle !!
 
Might try one of the custom computer places rather than a chain-shop like Circuit City -- someone here may know of some good one near/in Reno. Also, the scanner problem may be able to be solved by lifting up the glass and cleaning/blowing air into it.
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
Got to get it up and running and try to figure out how to get info off old computer onto new. Ideas?
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Buckle your seat belt and keep your heart medicine handy, Bill. You are in for a ride!
 
Also, the scanner problem may be able to be solved by lifting up the glass and cleaning/blowing air into it.

I tried that will no success. Also reinstalled software. Nothing helped and now I don't care.
 
Didn't know you already had it working. Was getting ready to write you off for another week or so.
 
a risky way to do it is to pull out the old hard drive, change the jumper in the back to set it as a slave and put it in the new computer.

In slave mode it will (hopefully) just show up as an extra hard drive and you can transfer files without any cables, etc.

I did this with a very old 2 GB drive from an ornery computer that just got upgraded a couple of months ago. It worked just fine. After doing that, I formatted the rascal and now use it as extra storage.

Just an idea - but you gotta be brave and kinda nutso to do it.

:D
 
Originally posted by Aardvark ........install your old hard drive on it, and simply copy the data.
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Yep.

Also, you can leave that old drive in the computer
and copy (backup) your data to that drive every so often.
Say start the copy every Saturday night before you walk away.
Whenever you regularly -don't- use the computer.

About once a year I have my partitioned (or not) HD crash
and lose everything on the drive, including any partitions.
Recovery programs have never worked for me.
Try to keep data backup of email, pix, documents, shortcuts,
bookmarks, and anything else copied to a seperate drive.

If you haven't been doing any kind of backup, you need to start.
 
Originally posted by pendentive ......a risky way to do it is to pull out the old hard drive, change the jumper in the back to set it as a slave and put it in the new computer.
In slave mode it will (hopefully) just show up as an extra hard drive and you can transfer files without any cables, etc.
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Moving the drive has always been the quickest, safest way for me.

Instead of slave you can usually put it on the
second IDE cable as master(usually the CDROM is
connected here as master),
set the CDROM (jumper/switch) to slave, and leave the HD in place.
[Despite what some say, both CD & HD have always worked
great in many configurations.]
Putting both HD on the same cable makes the Copy slower.

If you have a partitioned new HD, then add a second HD,
you will see the 2nd inserted into the drive-letter list
as D:; not at the end of the list where you might expect.
If you have anything installed that references D: or greater,
the software will no longer be looking at the proper drive.
Just something to keep in mind.
 
Got the new printer, copier and scanner working this AM. I'm using the new system almsost exclusively now and like it a lot -- so much faster than my old 266. Getting used to new versions of browsers and other new stuff I didn't have before.

But I still need to get the stuff off my old computer. The Circuit City folks said I'd have a big problem because I was still on Win95 and the file format is different and that I couldn't do a network transfer. I'd like to get the info moved by myself but if that fails Nephew Travis will be here next week and will bring his tools and get it done for me.

Thanks for help.

Knowing the problem with Win95 file system can I still stick the old hard drive into new computer and get stuff copied?
 
You can still hook up the old drive and copy it over. It just requires PC surgery. I'm sure your nephew will know how to do it.

It's true that the file formating systems are different. You have Windows XP which is running NTFS. Windows 95 uses FAT16.

However, XP can read both file formatting systems without any problem. What you ran into is a "knowledgable salesperson" which means what he knows doesn't go deeper than the backside of the sales pitch paper he's reading from. ouch! :eek:
 
you can have network transfers between completely different computer systems, between mac and windows isn't uncommon. THe people at Circuit City are very much wrong

A Win95 hard drive can be put directly in your new computer and read, don't know why they think it wouldn'twork to transfer the files over the network. actually, not surprised, about typical of incompetnece I've seen at places like that.
 
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