Migrating data from an old win 98 PC

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Componentgirl90

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I am trying to migrate data from my 1999 windows 98 PC. It has a CD, floppy, Iomega disk drive (100Mb), USB ports and a network card.

I think the best way of doing it is copying the data via a USB drive. The system doesn't recognise any of my USB sticks (no USB drivers on the system). I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to get the data off.
 
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You can try connecting it as a secondary hard drive in your PC and migrate the data from there

In most modern pcs in order to connect an old IDE drive, you need a ide to sata connector.
Another option is to purchase CD/DVD disc and transfer them from there
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You can try connecting it as a secondary hard drive in your PC and migrate the data from there

In most modern pcs in order to connect an old IDE drive, you need a ide to sata connector.
Another option is to purchase CD/DVD disc and transfer them from there
 
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Oh, another idea came to mind. Do you have internet access on that windows 98 PC? You could drag and copy over the folders to a web uploading site like Google drive and retrieve them from your new system (need to make an account first) the first 15 GB is always free.
 
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If you have network between the systems, just use Windows file and printer sharing to access the other system. I do not remember having issues accessing networks shares on Windows 98.

Windows 98 also had USB support(you may need drivers.).

Local shares are much faster than the internet(chances are you will have either a 10 or 100 megabit card so it will not be blazing fast either).

Along the same idea of using the old hard drive on a new system would be using a USB to IDE adapter to get data off(they tend to come with a power adapter and everything). Windows 98 does not even have security(NTFS file system) over files making it very easy to copy your files from c:\documents and settings\your name\

Also remember IDE drives have jumper settings for Master Slave and Cable Select. For most adapters Master or single for the drives that had that option should be used as other settings may not work at all(does not hurt anything, just does not work).
 
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If you are using RJ45(Ethernet) you will need a crossover cable.

On top of this you will have to manually assign IP's to the computers. IT also never hurts to make the other system the DNS server(it will not be anyway). Both systems have to be within the same range(ie 192.168.2.2 to 192.168.2.254[only the last 3 numbers should be changed to anything in that range because of the subnet] with a subnet of 255.255.255.0). They also should be on the same workgroup.

If you happen to have a router setup already, it will deal with IP's for you. In that case connect each system to the router to get an IP. You still need to be on the same work group and have the proper config for file sharing.
 
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