File problems

  • Thread starter Thread starter bob
  • Start date Start date
B

bob

I have an old computer formatted with FAT. Their are 4-5 small files that I
want to transfer to the new computer, NTFS. Zipped the files are 700k. Can
anyone point me where to find out, or simply tell me? The old computer is
not connected to the internet so I can't email them to myself.

Thanks, in advance
Bob
 
bob said:
I have an old computer formatted with FAT. Their are 4-5 small files that I
want to transfer to the new computer, NTFS. Zipped the files are 700k. Can
anyone point me where to find out, or simply tell me? The old computer is
not connected to the internet so I can't email them to myself.

Thanks, in advance
Bob
Click to expand...
They`d fit on a floppy disc then ?.
 
bob said:
I have an old computer formatted with FAT. Their are 4-5 small
files that I want to transfer to the new computer, NTFS. Zipped
the files are 700k. Can anyone point me where to find out, or
simply tell me? The old computer is not connected to the internet
so I can't email them to myself.
Click to expand...

If possible, use a USB flash drive (memory stick, thumb drive).
 
The Seabat said:
Burn 'em to a CD-RW or a floppy!
Click to expand...

I put them on a floppy, but the floppy is FAT and I can't read it in the
new, NTFS, machine. That's the problem.
 
bob said:
I put them on a floppy, but the floppy is FAT and I can't read it in the
new, NTFS, machine. That's the problem.
Click to expand...
Any version of Windows will read a floppy! One of the systems has a
faulty/misaligned floppy drive. Can the old system read its own floppy? Try
the floppy in another system. Try formatting the flopy on the new system (it
will be FAT12) and see if the old system can write to it.
Mike.
 
bob said:
I put them on a floppy, but the floppy is FAT and I can't read it in the
new, NTFS, machine. That's the problem.
Click to expand...


Ding dong.....it matters not the ntfs - fat32 - fat windows will read
and write to the floppy. NOW if you were running windows 98 and added a ntfs
partition to the harddrive then there would be a problem....easily fix by
third party add on software.
 
I put them on a floppy, but the floppy is FAT and I can't read it in
the new, NTFS, machine. That's the problem.
Click to expand...

No it isnt, the new NTFS machine will read FAT floppys fine.

You can have hard drives formatted FAT in a
machine with NTFS formatted hard drives too.

The problem must be that you've got a bad floppy drive in the old machine.
Pretty cheap to just buy another floppy drive, just for the move, or you could
put the floppy drive out of the new machine into the old one just while you
write the floppy and then move it back to the new machine where it belongs.

A new floppy drive is less risky warranty wise with the new system and is dirt cheap.
 
Back
Top