Old Machine to New!! Help..Please?

Darth Vapor · 03-04-2008, 01:42 PM

So I built a new machine for my wifes friend for general purpose (no gaming etc..) it has vista installed.

Then my wifes friend says oh by the way we are on dial-up and have a older machine on win98 and only a dvd rom - no burner. (they will be going to broadband)

They want to keep the data from the old machine - how could I do this easily? I havent seen the old machine but I am guessing no network card.

Can I just install as a slave drive? any ideas?

[-0MEGA-] · 03-04-2008, 01:44 PM

If they want to keep the data then I would just back it up and copy their files to the new computer.

Darth Vapor · 03-04-2008, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by [-0MEGA-]

If they want to keep the data then I would just back it up and copy their files to the new computer.

How do I do that without a burner? They only have ROM and the old 3.5 Floppy

voyagerfan99 · 03-04-2008, 09:05 PM

I'd just use the older drive as a slave.

Campo · 03-05-2008, 02:00 AM

Or if you have a external hard drive you can copy the files to the external

[-0MEGA-] · 03-05-2008, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by voyagerfan99

I'd just use the older drive as a slave.

You can do that and just copy the files over to the new system, then remove the slave drive.

Darth Vapor · 03-05-2008, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by [-0MEGA-]

You can do that and just copy the files over to the new system, then remove the slave drive.

Winnar!!! Thanks

dark_legacy2006 · 03-05-2008, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Campo

Or if you have a external hard drive you can copy the files to the external

assuming the computer has USB

and i am assuming both comps are ide or the newerone at least support sit

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voyagerfan99 Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,670	I'd just use the older drive as a slave.

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Campo banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Victoria, Australia Age: 14 Posts: 327	Or if you have a external hard drive you can copy the files to the external