Don't you just hate puters...
Submitted: Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 at 20:19
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Suddenly neither my main HDD or the backup HDD have any partition. Maybe a power glitch. All the software I could lay my hands on couldn't help, apparently a few other things got zapped also. (I know, I need a UPS)
Anyway much later I have the two disks up and running and I drag out my CD backups etc.
No Oziexplorer !
No GDT s/w ! (Lucky I have the paper ones as
well)
YEAA I have Natmap.
No worries, it's on the old lappy. But it's a VERY old lappy and there's no way to get it off. Direct cable connection from WinXP to the Win 98 lappy doesnt seem to work. Spend another day...still no joy.
ARRRGH !!
It's enough to make a man go bush and I would except for the screaming multitudes at my favourite quiet spots.
Anyone got an idea on how to connect XP and Win98 without using infrared, wireless , laplink etc ?? I want my GDT maps and Ozi back!!
Reply By: pt_nomad - Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 at 23:13
Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 at 23:13
You could try taking the hard disc out of the laptop and inserting it into one of those USB drive cases. The hard disc's are usually behind a panel that is easy to get to. The USB cases can be bought from puter shops for $20 or less. It is basically a case that has a plug and space for your hard disc. Once the disc is inserted you plug it into your PC with the case's USB cable.
Your XP PC will see it as a disk drive the same as it see a flash drive or camera drive. Once the drive is visible, you can copy the files across from the laptop HDD to the PC's HDD.
I have a 40gb disk in such a case as a back-up drive. Over USB its not the fastest file transfer rate but it will be adequate for your use.
Once finished take the HDD out of the case and re-install back into your laptop and it will still work ( assuming you don't do something silly like overwiting system files).
Alternativley take the laptop to a puter
shop and ask them to copy the ozi folder to a DVD, they will be able to do it for a small fee.
Paull
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