Harold:
You have not said whether your flash drive
works with your win 98 computer. Is your win 98
in a FAT 32 partition? If it is and your flash drive
works with it then that shoots my theory up.
The idea of zipping your files is to hide their attributes
from the transfer medium. zipping/unzipping them is not
going change any of their attributes. I have used this trick
of using winzip to zip files with long file names, then
transferring the zipped file with a DOS program.
(DOS does not support long file names).
When the zipped file is unzipped with winzip
the long file names are preserved.
Wally
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:07:54 -0400 "Harold B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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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