File Setting Transfer Wizard Question

[Tony Linguini]

I am helping a friend upgrade 4 workstations at his office. The first one
went fine, but it was an XP Pro to XP Pro transfer. I wasn't so lucky with
the second. It's a Windows 98 to XP Pro transfer. I first tried making a
transfer floppy. It was created fine by the XP machine, but gave a fatal
exception error on the Win98. Then I tried using the XP Pro CD and it went
through the drill fine, but said it needed 1400 floppies. Next try I used my
Maxtor USB removeable hard drive, but 98 couldn't see NTFS. I formatted my
removeable drive to FAT32, created the transfer file, but the XP machine
couldn't see it. I then bought a DCC cable, and tried that way. Everything
ran fine, the com ports were recognized, but when it started "transferring
files" it just sat for 30 minutes with no progress. I checked the com ports,
and one was set different, so I matched them up, tried again with the same
result. I'd like to get this one solved, because the other 2 are also Win
98. Suggestions appreciated. Thank you.

 

[R. McCarty]

Two options: - 1st, a USB-to-USB data transfer cable. Comes with an
Explorer like interface. Most times comes with 9X drivers if required.
Or use a spare IDE drive, just open the 9X cabinets and plug it in as a
Primary Slave (Formatted FAT32), do the transfer directly to the drive.
I'm a little perplexed as to what your goal is - just upgrading the 9X
machines to XP ? or backing up data from the machines. If they are
networked together couldn't you just create a Net Share and save the
FAST data to it ?

 

[Tom Porterfield]

I am helping a friend upgrade 4 workstations at his office. The first one
went fine, but it was an XP Pro to XP Pro transfer. I wasn't so lucky with
the second. It's a Windows 98 to XP Pro transfer. I first tried making a
transfer floppy. It was created fine by the XP machine, but gave a fatal
exception error on the Win98. Then I tried using the XP Pro CD and it went
through the drill fine, but said it needed 1400 floppies. Next try I used
my Maxtor USB removeable hard drive, but 98 couldn't see NTFS. I
formatted my removeable drive to FAT32, created the transfer file, but
the XP machine couldn't see it. I then bought a DCC cable, and tried that
way. Everything ran fine, the com ports were recognized, but when it
started "transferring files" it just sat for 30 minutes with no progress.
I checked the com ports, and one was set different, so I matched them up,
tried again with the same result. I'd like to get this one solved,
because the other 2 are also Win
98. Suggestions appreciated. Thank you.

DCC is a very slow way to transfer the data as the files are quite large.
See Gary Woodruff's article on how to use FAST at
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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