Harold:
If you are thinking of using a Flash Drive
to transfer your files, consider the following:
I purchased a PNY Flash Drive that said
I could get the installation software for win 98 SE
at their web site. The sales person said that
the flash drive did not always work with win 98 SE.
I found that it worked when Win 98 SE was
installed on a FAT 16 partition but did not work
when it was installed on a FAT 32 partition.
Kelly Younger gave you the best advice for
moving your files via a cd ROM. Just Zip them.
They will unzip with no added "read only" attributes.
Create a new folder and move all the folders with
their sub-folders into it. Then right click on the
new folder and select zip from the win-zip selection.
Then burn that zip file onto the cd.
Unzip the file onto your new computer and
the files are on the new hard drive.
Wally
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:03:53 -0400 "Harold B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello again (long time no hello),
>
>
>
> And why is that? Because I am still on step numero uno for this
> Windows XP
> system I have; it's a new Compaq Presario with tons of memory and
> space, and
> I'm working on how to save files and folders from the hard drive
> onto a RW/CD
> without them turning into "Read only" files and folders.
> The Compaq/Hewlett-Packard technicians say it cannot be done; that
> RW/CD's are
> not used to backup and EDIT documents but rather, are used only to
> backup
> Setup files and Executable files. I tell them that is not the way it
> was in
> Windows 98 and they answer that XP is different. Here's an example
> where
> different is not necessarily better.
> One technician said they were supposed to include a CD for "Sonic
> MyDVD Plus"
> which would included a file called "MyDVD.MSI" (mydvd dot msi) which
> can be
> used to avoid the "Read only" attribute. Well, I never saw that CD
> in the
> carton and they will (should?) call me tomorrow morning to discuss
> that.
> Another technician said that Sonic has nothing to do with "Read
> only" and that
> I might purchase a DLA (whatever that is) or a USB Thumbnail Drive,
> or a
> Secure Flash Media Card, all which will easily accept backups and
> not put them
> into "Read only" ... more business for Staples.
> What am I doing talking about all this; it's way over my head.
> Meanwhile, it's
> good I still have all my important files and folders on the old HP
> Presario
> Win 98 computer where I'll copy them all onto a new RW/CD (they
> won't be "Read
> only" there (everything I have on this Compaq is now "Read only") .
> otherwise,
> everything is fine, not complaining, and discovering that progress
> can
> sometimes be two steps back and hopefully three steps forward; if I
> can't take
> three steps forward, then where I am gong? . Harold
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