I have a old(IBM compatible) 80286 cpu based PC and too many diskettes(these are 5.25 inch diskettes). The old PC is 100MB HDD, 5.25 inch floppy disk and 1.44MB floppy disk. I have a problem. I would like to move from my old data(in 5.25inch diskette) to my new pentium4 computer.
Are there any solutions?
Please posting your idea,
2006-10-25 23:33:37 · 5 answers · asked by Yongsik 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
This is a question for retro lovers.
The simplest solution is to take out the old floppy drive (5" one) and plug it into the floppy port on your new motherboard, hopefully you will have a power connection to match.
I wouldn't actually install the drive as you may want to reconnect your present floppy. You may also have to change the floppy parameters in your BIOS to tell it what kind of drive you are installing.
Other options are on your old machine copy the disks to the hard drive and install that hard drive as slave in your new machine but at 100Mb it isn't going to be much use for extra storage. Another one is to install a small floppy drive in your old machine and copy disk to disk. If you are very lucky you may also be able to install a CD burner in your old machine but that will depend on your hardware connections on what OS you were using (3.1, 95 etc).
Some retailers or PC geeks may also have an old 5" drive which plugs in via a serial or even USB port but you would have to ask around.
2006-10-25 23:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by David Computer Guy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Take the old Hard Drive out.
2. Buy a USB to IDE adapter from Tiger Direct
3. Plug and Play
4. Copy all your files to a folder on your new computer.
2006-10-26 00:01:37 · answer #2 · answered by JohnSyd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that isn't a issue and that i've got executed it many a circumstances: The previous difficult stress ought to have its jumper set to Secondary grasp. for sure, homestead windows will boot off of the universal grasp that could be the hot difficult stress with the hot XP installation. in case you plug the previous difficult stress in pre-installation, you ought to be waiting to be certain it for the period of the partitioning strategies (to be greater risk-free, plug the previous difficult stress in, after the hot installation so which you do no longer by possibility delete the previous difficult stress's partitioning table or format over it). The previous stress will happen as a 2d difficult stress as typical, yet my journey is that it will no longer consistently have the subsequent available stress letter in line (for occasion, C,D, and then G). that could actual be remedied in Disk administration and would not count in terms of function or overall performance.
2016-11-25 21:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unplug your old hard drive
unplug your cd roms on your new machine
plug your old hdd into the cd rom cable you just disconnected
turn on your pc
once your pc recognises the new drive brouse it
then you can transfer the files
once your done turn off the pc remove the old hdd
reconnect your cd rom and your set
2006-10-26 00:45:43 · answer #4 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unplug the hd, then plug it into the other. thats all I have ever done.
hardware wizard will see it, and soon you'll be transferring files like mad.
2006-10-25 23:40:14 · answer #5 · answered by Diadem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋