Hello again,
Wally says:: ... "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"
Respone ... I reinstalled the system just to be absolutely sure that the
Sonic program is working properly. I'm not sure how that Sonic works but see
my "Btw" below. Eventually I'll be using those RW/CD's again; the drive is
there, might as well make some use of it. What's more interesting now is
that (and I'm not sure how I did it), all the files that came off the CD's
are R/W, the way they should be. However, all the folders in my system are
checked "Read only" and I cannot change them. Even zipping then and
unzipping then doesn't change that attribute.
To be exact, the "Read only" box is grayed out and also checked, BUT, they
can easily be deleted, and the files can be editied, so they are working
fine. I'll leave well enough along and will eventually learn how to use
RW/CD's on this system. XP is better than 98; it's even more fun to work
with. But it's a much bigger leap than from 95 to 98; technical support said
there are systems that came between 98 and XP which I skipped.
Btw, It was on sale so I purchased a USB 1 Gig Flash Drive for $60 ... it
plugs into a USB port, it's small (one can hold it in a pocket; even comes
with a lanyard if one wants to hang it around one's neck). It works like a
floppy but holds one gigabite of information; that's much better than any
RW/CD, and the prognosis is that it should last indefinitely (provided I
don't feed it high cholesterol files)..--- Harold
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