Jamastiene
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Sat Jan-07-06 02:16 PM
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Who else is in computer hell today? |
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Just curious. I know what I am doing, sort of, but it's still taking forever out of my all-too-short weekend. Gotta do it though. My aunt is wanting her new computer so she can come here and talk too eventually. I gotta unload my millions of picture, music, and other files so the old antique will run again. Naturally, I can't move all that with the CD-RW drive out. Can't buy it a new one because it's an older 98SE Pentium MMX that won't run newer hardware. I am downloading the driver for the little jump drive as I type this. Who else dreads having to move tons of files without burning a cd because you can't?
Okay, if that isn't your issue, please share anyhow. It's hell having to do many things on computers, just because it takes time and effort. Damn, I am too lazy for this.
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Sat Jan-07-06 02:34 PM
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1. Find an external CD that will work with it. |
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I put two on my old 98 system (333).
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Jamastiene
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Sat Jan-07-06 02:55 PM
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4. I hadn't thought of that. |
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My new computer does have a cd/dvd burner on it. I will probably just keep moving the files this way for now. I did manage to get a 256MB jump drive for school, as I will need it. Such a cute little gadget. If I only had my old computer up higher where I wouldn't have to contort myself to use the mouse for dragging and copying...
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Sat Jan-07-06 03:08 PM
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Edited on Sat Jan-07-06 03:34 PM by Strong Atheist
which it should, find an external CD burner that is compatible with your system ...
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Jamastiene
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Sat Jan-07-06 03:20 PM
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6. May just end up doing that when finances allow. |
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My aunt will mainly use the computer for typing letters and going online. I just want my old crap to be on the new computer so I can make it a project of burning a cd of the old stuff. And this time, I intend to burn a cdr not a cd-rw. I learned my lesson doing that the last time. On the old computer, when I burned my original music raw wave files onto a cd-rw, I used Direct CD and guess what? Direct CD is not supported nor will it install on an XP machine. My music cd-rw looks like a blank cd-rw now. Gulp. I hope I left some of it on the hard drive on the old computer. Next go round, I will find out. I'm getting the hang of moving the files first. Also, I learned a long time ago to just copy files. I lost tons of files on the old computer when I discovered the cd-rw was fried, because I moved the files. I suppose they went to computer electron heaven or something, because I checked my temp folder and every other place I could think of to find them with no luck.
I did install a USB 2.0 port on the old one, thankfully. Otherwise, I'd be searching for a file chopper and spending weeks on something I don't have to time to spend weeks doing.
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Sat Jan-07-06 03:34 PM
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Edited on Sat Jan-07-06 03:34 PM by Strong Atheist
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Jamastiene
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Sat Jan-07-06 04:56 PM
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I love computers, but there are times when I just want to vegetate. If I don't get this done this weekend, I may never get it done. Wow, the old comp is running slow. Really slow.
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Sat Jan-07-06 02:37 PM
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2. Maybe not hell, but definitely heck |
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Ongoing piddly little things resulting from a catastrophic system upgrade I shouldn't have performed ahead of the one I really wanted. Nothing major, but it's really really annoying.
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Sat Jan-07-06 02:53 PM
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3. I know. Even if you know what your are planning on doing and |
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even if you do everything right, it can end up taking forever to make things right. It's just a time consuming annoyance all the way around.
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Sat Jan-07-06 05:44 PM
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Network the old one to the new one and transfer that way....
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Sat Jan-07-06 06:18 PM
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we're all in computer hell
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