From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org
wrote:
> A. Tina Hall wrote:
>> (am in book 7b now - 7 got too big to fit onto the backup floppy
>> along with the notes files when I was still writing on the old
>> computer and doing floppy drive backups).
>>
> If this computer is i486 or Pentium I or II and has a USB 1.1 or 2
> port in the back of it, and you are using Windows 98 as the operating
> system,
I plugged in the windoze drive in the old computer that's normally never
connected and put the directory onto an USB to get the stories to the
new computer (plus pretty much everything else, because the usually used
harddrives and partitions are added up less than the 8GB USB stick ).
But no, the writing was done on OS/2 Systemeditor. (And the D: drive
booted DOS.) Only reason I rarely boot that anymore is because something
in it (one drive I think) is making a constant high pitched noise. I
should just put them into the IDE-to-USB thing I got for the new
computer, make backups, find out which is making the noise, and sort
them out.
But in the meantime I found notepad++ (recommended by a friend) that is
acceptable and do the writing on this computer now.
What bugs me though is that the USB is a bad medium for backup. 4
identical floppies per book (plus data files) worked and never let me
down. CDs on the other hand lose their coat and are awkward to use (need
to start burner software), and the USB stick I used originally already
lost some data, never mind that that's more awkward than just putting a
floppy into a permanent drive too.
(Bought a 2nd and doing 2 copies of the directories on each, but I don't
like it. Too bad I missed the window where I could buy USB floppy
drive.)
Thanks for the suggestion though.
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