having troubles transfering files from Windows XP to 98se..

[Vendor Defendor]

i finally got my own computer, its not the newest thing but hey its good enough for me. so i am trying to get all my crap off my parents machine and put it on mine. i tryed putting everything on a CD-RW and doing it all that way, but that didnt work.. the other computer wont recongize the others work... then i tryed sending myself everything by .zip-ing it and sending it to me through AIM. some of the stuff worked, and some of it didnt. it keeps coming up with one of those info boxes telling me that i have a bad something or other...

so is there something i am missing? or did Bill Gates and his goons try to make life incredibaly difficult for some of us?

thanks for any help

-Neil

 

[d0n_3d]

Windows XP by default uses the NTFS which stands for "New Technology File System" and Windows 98 SE uses the old FAT32 file system...you won't be able to recognize files from different file systems like that...i am no expert yet on this stuff (that's why i am going to college for it) but i think if you create files in NTFS that you can only view them in the same file system...and vice versa...someone correct me if i am wrong!

 

[tjthorson]

Ummmm. No. Since you don't have a network setup (even 2 $10 ethernet cards and a crossover cable would work), the second best way is to do a hard drive copy of the files. Its also the fastest. The problem here is that if the XP machine is using NTFS (as stated, but you can use FAT32 with XP if you want), the 98SE machine will not read it.

The way to do it is to use the FAT32 drive in the XP box.

If you are not familiar enough to know about IDE master/slave setups, I will go into it further.

But for now, you will remove the hard drive from your 98SE box (destination) and unplug a CDROM from the XP box. Plug in the 98SE hard drive, taking careful note if the cdrom was master/slave and make the hard drive match.

Fire up the XP box, it will read both NTFS and FAT32 at the same time and you can copy from drive to drive at will. Remember, you can only transfer data, not applications. You will need to reinstall any applications or games from the original CDs once you reinstall it in the original 98SE computer. - unless you REALLY know what you are doing.

I trust you at least know you are copying data? Saved games, documents, pictures, movies, etc? Your AREN'T trying to "install" XP from one drive to another, are you?


Good luck!

 

[Vendor Defendor]

no, its mostly music and stuff, and it almost sounds like to much of a hastle for me... oh well thanks

-Neil

 

[lp2]

First off, ntfs doesn't mean it can't read fat32, and neither does fat32 mean it can't read ntfs (just a major hassle that requires 3rd party tools)

If moving stuff around via the hd swap doesn't sound like your idea of a fun afternoon, you could always buy a couple of network cards and a crossover cat5 cable. It wouldn't cost that much, and in general is handy to have anyway.

If you have broadband, your parents machine probably already have a network card, and if your computer is new, it probably does too. A crossover cable is just a 'special' cat5 that lets you plug two network cards together directly without a hub, switch, router, etc.

On a side note, if your parents have broadband and you plan on sharing it, just go spend your bucks now and buy a router. It will let you have a local network so you can share files and a printer between the two computers, (probably) a firewall to protect the local computers from all the bad junk on the net that's been in the news lately, and it will let both machines surf on the internet at the same time.

Good luck.

 

[striker_29]

These guys are correct, but if its just music and stuff there really is no reason why you shouldnt be able simply to burn it on a cd and transfer like you originally tried to do. Just be sure to use a good quality cd-r and you shouldn't have any problems. None of that cheap crap!

 

[Vendor Defendor]

Originally posted by striker_29
These guys are correct, but if its just music and stuff there really is no reason why you shouldnt be able simply to burn it on a cd and transfer like you originally tried to do. Just be sure to use a good quality cd-r and you shouldn't have any problems. None of that cheap crap!

for some reason CD-R's and CD-RW's arent working, if i format it on the XP machine, it says on my machine that it cannot read the cd, i can format it again, but then the XP machine wont recongize the fact that its there...

humm...

-Neil

 

[striker_29]

The only ones you format are cd-rw's. Don't use those if its acting flaky. Use a good high quality cd-r and a good cd creator like adaptec or neuro and see what happens.