Peeked in my new Acer 7700 and don't see how to ...

[socrates99]

... hookup the disk drive from my old Windows 95 Compaq as a slave to download the 5 gigs of files I have there onto the new hard drive. Could anyone help this ignoramus out.

tony

 

[jward52]

If that new box has a warranty, you might have voided it by "peeking" inside it. Anyway, you should take the old HDD to a computer shop and have them burn the files you want to a CD. Simple operation that will keep you from messing up your new Acer.
Jim

 

[garebo]

I dont understand what the problem is. You will find an ide cable hooked up to your hard drive. All you have to do is jumper your second hard drive to slave and install it on the same ide cable on your Acer and power it up and copy the data to your c drive on your Acer.


I have seen some of the new Acer cases where the one side and the top have rivets instead of screws, they sure dont want anyone doing service on these computers. At least one side is accessible!


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[paparazi]

You guys sure an NTFS XP installation will see Fat16 W95 files?
(if thats what they are)
Don't think so.
Martin

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[garebo]

oh ya, forgot about that.




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[jward52]

The way the question is asked, I figured that it's best to have this person take the HDD somewhere and have the files burned to CD to avoid a host of potential problems that could happen when someone who doesn't have any computer knowledge opens up a case. Best way to go, hey?

 

[edfair]

Probably better to disconnect the CD and plug the old drive there.

Haven't looked with a NTFS version but the FAT versions I've worked with saw the FAT16 stuff.

Ed Fair
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[garebo]

But, again, the NTFS version of win xp wont read the fat version?


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[jurgen36]

:garebo
I tend to disagree, winxp can read and write to fat32 and to ntsf, no problems at all. However dos or earlier windows versions 98 me etc con not see ntsf drives. Linux can see and write to all formats but I would not trust linux to write to ntsf drives.
Regards

Jurgen

 

[Freestone]

Microsoft Windows XP Professional supported file systems:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_buvl.asp