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I'm RickJames
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Posted - 2008.08.05 02:51:00 -
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I have a bunch of old CD's that I found that I want to see what is on them, and re-archive them. This is old files, photos and what not I found in storage that I recorded to CD before external drives were affordable.
However, the file format of these CD's is unknown to WinXP. I got an old Win95 machine running, and it sees the cd's as file system "CDFS" WinXP shows it as "Unknown" and only displays a drive is available and nothing on the disc, not even an amount of space available.
How can I get these CD's writted in "CDFS" to be read by WinXP?
Thanks.
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Robert Rosenberg
Amarr
Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2008.08.05 02:52:00 -
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Copy the files to the windows 95 machine, then buy a zip drive (USB deal) and hook them into that, or do a huge upload to yousendit or rapidshare overnight
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Nausicaa
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2008.08.05 03:07:00 -
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Edited by: Nausicaa on 05/08/2008 03:08:17
 Originally by: Robert Rosenberg
Copy the files to the windows 95 machine, then buy a zip drive (USB deal) and hook them into that, or do a huge upload to yousendit or rapidshare overnight
Not sure Win95 supports USB (afaik Win98 was the first version of Windows to handle USB).
You can try hooking the two machines via a switch/router and use that mini network to transfer files from one machine to the other (file sharing). If that's too cumbersome, zip the old files and use online storage to transfer them over (ftp or gmail, anything).
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I'm RickJames
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Posted - 2008.08.05 03:10:00 -
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Thanks for the response. I have considered soemthign like that - but I am hoping to just make some simple fix to my main computer.
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Bish Ounen
Gallente
Omni-Core Freedom Fighters
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2008.08.05 03:19:00 -
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Originally by: Nausicaa
Edited by: Nausicaa on 05/08/2008 03:08:17
Originally by: Robert Rosenberg
Copy the files to the windows 95 machine, then buy a zip drive (USB deal) and hook them into that, or do a huge upload to yousendit or rapidshare overnight
Not sure Win95 supports USB (afaik Win98 was the first version of Windows to handle USB).
You can try hooking the two machines via a switch/router and use that mini network to transfer files from one machine to the other (file sharing). If that's too cumbersome, zip the old files and use online storage to transfer them over (ftp or gmail, anything).
Strictly speaking Win95 supported the USB 1.0 specification. Which nobody used. At all.
Win95se (Yes, there WAS a short-lived se version of 95 too) supported USB 1.1. So depending on the version you have, a USB device MIGHT work, albeit slowly.
A better option might be to use data recovery software such as Ontrack's easy Recovery Professional, or something similar. Check Pirate Bay for listings on that.
Tactical Logistics using the last T1 Frigate hull!
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I'm RickJames
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Posted - 2008.08.05 03:32:00 -
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What is the max size of a drive for Win95? Was it 4Gb? or 32gb or something like that? All my archive drives are in the newer, larger sized format, so I should buy a smaller usb drive. Its only 20-30 some cd's. The slowest part will be reading from the CD's which were, no doubt recorded no faster than 16x speed. Probably 8x.
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ZigZag Joe
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2008.08.05 04:00:00 -
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Edited by: ZigZag Joe on 05/08/2008 04:01:25
uh. CDFS is *not* a windows 95 specific filesystem (its a generic container, can have FAT, ext2, etc)...I believe either the disk hasn't been written to, its corrupted, or you wrote it with a filesystem that windows can't read.
you may have used a packet-writing software to drag and drop files onto the CD (and unlike how winxp today does it, it actually wrote it then and there.) problem is, if you didn't finalize the cd, nothing but the software used to burn is likely to be able to read it.
if thats the case, you are probably boned. you could try using linux to read it, and hope the superior FS support pulls through...
(he didn't say the win95 system could read it...just what it reported the FS as. if it can see the files, well, fine and dandy...)
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F'nog
Amarr
Celestial Horizon Corp.
Celestial Industrial Alliance
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Posted - 2008.08.05 04:27:00 -
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Originally by: I'm RickJames
What is the max size of a drive for Win95? Was it 4Gb? or 32gb or something like that? All my archive drives are in the newer, larger sized format, so I should buy a smaller usb drive. Its only 20-30 some cd's. The slowest part will be reading from the CD's which were, no doubt recorded no faster than 16x speed. Probably 8x.
4GB seems to be pushing it. There weren't any drives that large out, that normal people had access to, so I doubt it was that big. 2GB pops into my head for some reason.
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