Re: Getting Files Off My WindowsMe PC
Re: Getting Files Off My WindowsMe PC
On Oct 21, 9:19 pm, "glee" <gle...@spamindspring.com> wrote:
> You could remove the hard drive from the computer, install it as a slave in another
> computer, and copy off the files you want to save.
>
> Alternately, if you have a network card (Ethernet adapter) in the machine, you could
> network it with another computer and copy your files.
>
> Re: the SanDisk Cruzer, you have the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the system
> tray, but no drive letter for it in My Computer? When you single-click the icon in
> the tray, do you see the box to click to remove the hardware? Does it show a drive
> letter for the Cruzer?
> --
> Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+http://dts-l.org/http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
> "Searcher7" <Search...@mail.con2.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1192987707.297189.195950@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
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>
>
> >I probably have the worst luck of anyone in history when it comes to
> > anyhting associated with Microsoft.
>
> > My first two computers when down taking everything with them. My
> > secondary harddrives, my Jazz drives, my Zip drives, my other apps for
> > transferring data between systems have all failed me when I needed
> > them.
>
> > I am now on my third internet pc and the warning signs are there. The
> > pc is grossly outdated and I need another. Since my Zip drive no
> > longer works with this pc either, I just picked up a 4.0G Sandisk
> > Cruzer (since no other option is working), and I'm having difficulties
> > getting my system to find and install it.
>
> > I do not have "Add New Hardware" in my control panel and do not know
> > why. There is an icon on the taskbar, but no other reference on my
> > system to the drive that is plugged into my USB port.
>
> > I'm experiencing a massive number of pc problems, so time is running
> > short.
>
> > Any ideas on what to do next would be appreciated.
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > Darren Harris
> > Staten Island, New York.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
On Oct 21, 10:28 am, Searcher7 <Search...@mail.con2.com> wrote:
> I probably have the worst luck of anyone in history when it comes to
> anyhting associated with Microsoft.
>
> My first two computers when down taking everything with them. My
> secondary harddrives, my Jazz drives, my Zip drives, my other apps for
> transferring data between systems have all failed me when I needed
> them.
>
> I am now on my third internet pc and the warning signs are there. The
> pc is grossly outdated and I need another. Since my Zip drive no
> longer works with this pc either, I just picked up a 4.0G Sandisk
> Cruzer (since no other option is working), and I'm having difficulties
> getting my system to find and install it.
>
> I do not have "Add New Hardware" in my control panel and do not know
> why. There is an icon on the taskbar, but no other reference on my
> system to the drive that is plugged into my USB port.
>
> I'm experiencing a massive number of pc problems, so time is running
> short.
>
> Any ideas on what to do next would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Darren Harris
> Staten Island, New York.
Darren,
If you get to the Internet then you most likely have a cable
connection, a dsl connection or a dial-up voice modem connection. With
a cable connection and an older PC you have will have Ethernet. Newer
ones (even if they use that old plow horse winME) may have USB,
Firewire and possibly someothers in addition to ethernet. With DSL
you most likely connect to your DSL modem thru the PCs ethernet.
If your desktop screen hasn't been mangled (or severely tweaked) you
probably see a "My Computer" icon (resembles a monitor sitting on top
of a desktop PC). Right click it, select "Properties" from the pop-up
menu. From the System Properties screen (left) click the DeviceManager
tab. That tab shows the major peripheral hardware components in your
PC as small icons lined up in a column/ At the top of this column is
another icon representing your PC. Coming out the bottom of this icon
is a line which you can think of as your system buss - the line that
carries all information from you to and from your peripherals.
Now think of that line as the back of a comb which has many tines
running to the right. Notice where each tine connects to the back of
the comb, the screen initially shows a plus. My screen shows each tine
running horizontal from the plus sign at the left end, for about an
eighth of an inch, to the right end where it enters another icon. The
latter icon represents a peripheral. To the right of this icon is a
brief text label telling you what kind or category of peripheral the
icon represents: CD-ROM, Disk Drives, Display adapters, Mouse, etc.
The one for Network adapter is what you are interested in for getting
to the bottom of your problem. Maybe you know all this already and
I've wasted your time. I hope not.
Anyway, (left) click on the plus sign closest to the Network Adapter
icon and report the text (label) next to each of the icons that appear
under that Network adapter icon AND connect directly to it (no other
icons between those that just appeared and the upper Network adapter
icon). One or more of these will represent ethernet adapters and
usually the word ethernet will appear in the label to their right.
If you are familiar with the steps I've mentioned then go ahead and
right click any that have the word ethernet in their label. From the
small pop-up menu which appears, select properties and you get a
marvelous little status report about that peripheral. It is another
tabbed report and the tab we are interested in is invariably the
first, the General tab. The golden nugget there, if you find it that
is, will appear under Device Status, at about the middle of this
property page. If under Device Status you find the message "This
device is working properly" you are in good shape. What ever it says,
golden nugget or silver bullet, report it to this group and someone
will be able to tell you what to do next.
Bob