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Brad Kimball
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1171
From: Highland Mills, NY USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 19, 2011 11:46 AM

I own a Dell with Windows 98 on it. How can I transfer some of the pictures and things from the old pc to the new pc? The external flash drives and hard drives in stores today won't work with such an old operating system.

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Gerald Santana
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1060
From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010

posted October 19, 2011 12:20 PM

Hi Brad,

Take a look at this link:

How to transfer files from an old PC to a new PC.

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http://lostandoutofprintfilms.blogspot.com/

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Jim Schrader
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1628
From: Savage, MN, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 19, 2011 03:11 PM

can you email them to yourself? that is what i did if you can still get on the internet. doesnt it have any usb ports?

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jim schrader
"Let's see “do I have that title already?"

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Nick Field
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 102
From: Herefordshire England
Registered: Jul 2010

posted October 19, 2011 03:31 PM

You may be able to use a flash drive if you re-format it to FAT32 as older windows systems only mostly used this format. Most modern flash drives and external hard drives are usually formatted to NTSF.Give it a go, you never know. [Wink]

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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1632
From: California
Registered: Aug 2007

posted October 19, 2011 11:23 PM

Depending on the hard drive controller and connectors in the new computer, you might be able to just move the old drive to the new computer long enough to migrate the files. If you don't mind doing that sort of surgery!

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Bryan Chernick
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 654
From: Bothell, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2010

posted October 20, 2011 03:49 AM

So this is how we’re going to lose our digital family memories. More reason to stay with film. At least if you ignore it for a decade or two it's still there for future generations. I hope you didn't lose anything too important Brad. I finally just started backing everything up with an online service but I still feel it's vulnerable.

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Joerg Polzfusz
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 815
From: Berlin, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System
Registered: Apr 2006

posted October 20, 2011 06:58 AM

As it's a PC with Windows 98, the hard-drives are either IDE or SATA. For a few coins you can get an "IDE/SATA to USB"-adapter like this one to connect your old drives to the new PC's USB-port.

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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1632
From: California
Registered: Aug 2007

posted October 20, 2011 10:33 AM

Bryan, the only reason that digital memories will be lost to future generations is because they haven't been backed up, or better, archived to a long-term storage solution (e.g, archival quality DVD-ROMs at least two copies apiece).

But we all know this is not how most people do it... impermanence is now a prized cultural value, methinks.

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