Does anybody have an operable Windows 95 or 98 computer with a USB port?
One of my ancient Windows 3.1 (yes, I'm serious!) workhorses died -- but I
think the hard drive is still good. Almost everything important was backed
up (key word: "almost").
I have some hardware that supposedly will let any older disk drive act as
an external disk to a new machine. But I can't get it to work in this
instance. It connects through a USB port. The problem may be that the old disk
drive has a FAT16 format, which versions of Windows above 98 don't recognize.
I'd like to try it on a Windows 98 (or 95) machine; what I'd do would be to
copy some files either onto a floppy or a CD-ROM. It might not work, but
it would have to have a USB port to even try.
FYI: I have another Windows 3.1 machine that still chugs along like a
champ. It doesn't have USB. I tried installing the drive from the dead machine
into it as a second HD but:
* I might have been doing something wrong (although it seemed simple
enough to do)
* The "old drive" may actually be bad -- although it makes "good
drive" and not "bad drive" noises
* I don't know as much as I used to think I did.
Alan Krigman
KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc
211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918
215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502
krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com
