I was thinking about installing the old HD internally into the new pc, but someone told me, you have to fiddle with pins on the back of the HD to tell the comp it's a slave drive. It all started to sound pretty confusing fast. lol
My plan for the future is to keep most info on external drives, and the comp pretty much free. Haven't decided if the next comp will be another desktop, or take the jump and go laptop. For me, storage was always the biggest issue with computers and what made me upgrade to newer stuff. Truth is, for 95% of what I do, a 10 year old pc works pretty much ok, other than you become stuck with hardware that won't allow softward upgrades. Ed 300E 2009/4/20 WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> > Haven't loaded a Zip drive onto the new machine. 'Few days ago, though, I > removed the HD from my old machine and inserted it into an HD enclosure > (ordered from cablestogo.com) which I plugged into USB port on the new > machine, making it, temporarily, a part of the new one. 'Wish I had done > that immediately when I got the new computer; makes transfer of stuff very > easy. Total cost of the "enclosure," etc., including shipping, min. order > charge, etc., was $35; saw a like unit at Staples for $41. 'Extremely easy > to set it up - remove HD from old computer, open enclosure, plug in the two > cables inside the unit, close it up, plug the unit's USB cable into new > computer, plug in the enclosure's power cord, turn on the enclosure's power > switch, and it comes up on the new computer screen as one of the new machine > as one of it's drives; use it just like any of it's other drives. After I > get what I want off it, I'll format the old drive, and use it for backup or > whatever. > > Wilton > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "E M" <pokieba...@gmail.com> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:26 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - New computer > > > Wilton, >> >> I'm in a similar situation as you, trying to pull stuff old older >> machines, >> both a win98 and several old macs, and switching it over to a Vista >> machine. I borrowed a friends older Zip machine, as you mentioned using >> one >> in the past. Did you have any problems loading the old drivers onto your >> Vista machine? >> >> Once I get everything moved over, I'll back up on an external HD, but >> right >> now, the trick is getting everything one one machine. I haven't had much >> luck using a memory stick, as one of the old usb ports is 1.0, and to be >> honest, I'm not smart enough with computers to mess about switching HDs >> over >> from other machines. >> >> Thanks Wilton. >> >> Regards, >> >> Ed >> 300E >> >> 2009/4/20 WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> >> >> BTW, Wonko, I can get WCPE (theclassicalstation.org) on my new computer. >>> 'Sure is nice! >>> >>> Wilton >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: < >>> >>> http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090420/58fea591/attachment.html >>> > >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090420/fca39c1f/attachment.html >> > >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090420/b6c00782/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
