Freeware to Run an External CD Burner under Win 98?

[benalias]

I am on the board of a non-profit group. A woman was kind enough to
donate an older laptop computer to our group, in care of me. She
wants me to make a backup of all her files, and then erase/overwrite
all personal files, before actually making the laptop available to our
group.

The problem is that the laptop has no backup mechanism, but it does
have a USB port. I bought an external cd burner, but the package says
something about the software requiring Win98 SE as a minimum. The
laptop has plain old Win 98.

I am wondering whether there is freeware out there to run the external
cd burner that would work under Win98.

(For some reason, every external CD burner that I looked at said it
required Win98 SE as a minimum.)

Yes, I could "take a chance" and try upgrading the OS before backing
up the files, but I just don't want to take the risk involved if I
could avoid it.

Thanks for any information you can provide.

C'ya.

Ben

 

[dadiOH]

I am on the board of a non-profit group. A woman was kind enough to
donate an older laptop computer to our group, in care of me. She
wants me to make a backup of all her files, and then erase/overwrite
all personal files, before actually making the laptop available to
our group.

The problem is that the laptop has no backup mechanism, but it does
have a USB port. I bought an external cd burner, but the package
says something about the software requiring Win98 SE as a minimum.
The laptop has plain old Win 98.

I am wondering whether there is freeware out there to run the
external cd burner that would work under Win98.

(For some reason, every external CD burner that I looked at said it
required Win98 SE as a minimum.)

Yes, I could "take a chance" and try upgrading the OS before backing
up the files, but I just don't want to take the risk involved if I
could avoid it.

Thanks for any information you can provide.

Do you know for a fact that the drive won't work with the OS? Tried it? If
yes and it doesn't work, try checking the burner app's site for support for
newer drives.

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[benalias]

(e-mail address removed) wrote:

Do you know for a fact that the drive won't work with the OS? Tried it?

No and no. Just going by the fact that the box says Win98 SE
(minimum) required, as did the boxes of every other external CD burner
I looked at in the local stores.

Thanks for the input.

C'ya.

Ben

 

[dadiOH]

No and no. Just going by the fact that the box says Win98 SE
(minimum) required, as did the boxes of every other external CD
burner I looked at in the local stores.

So try it, nothing will break

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[Paul Blarmy]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:40:19 -0500, dadiOH wrote...

Do you know for a fact that the drive won't work with the OS? Tried it? If
yes and it doesn't work, try checking the burner app's site for support for
newer drives.

As I understand it, Win98SE offered the USB support that plain old Win98
didn't. As such, probably not much you can do to get an external USB
drive working under Win98.

 

[Simon]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

I am on the board of a non-profit group. A woman was kind enough to
donate an older laptop computer to our group, in care of me. She
wants me to make a backup of all her files, and then erase/overwrite
all personal files, before actually making the laptop available to our
group.

</snip>

does it have a network card???

if so, just network it with another (98SE) PC and share the drives. You
should be able to back up anything/everything from the PC over the network
using your choice of burning software...

S

 

[ceg]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:40:19 -0500, dadiOH wrote...


As I understand it, Win98SE offered the USB support that plain old Win98
didn't. As such, probably not much you can do to get an external USB
drive working under Win98.

USB support was added in with W95b. If you need USB and don't have it look
for USBSUPP on google or go to the Microsoft website and do a search and
download from there. Otherwise, just plug the drive into your computer and
turn it on. Most likely it'll load the necessary drivers for the drive on
initial bootup.