You can always try to re-rip them from the cd you bought, of course...you do have the store-bought cds, right?

But if you insist, there are 3 ways you can do this:

1. Burn the songs to cd. Of course, you need a cd burner and a cd drive in the destination computer.

2. Just rip the HDD out, install it as slave in the source PC, and copy the files you want.

3. Use WinRAR or WinZip. WinRAR can zip all your files, and then break it down automatically into chunks sized 1.44 MB, which perfectly fits a blank floppy. You have to move them into the floppy manually though, which can be a pesky task especially if the floppy is not empty and needs manual deletions. Once moved, you have to copy the files from the floppy into the destination PC manually again, and rebuild the chunks. You have to have WinRAR installed on both source and destination PCs.

WinZip does it Wizard style, it automatically writes into the floppy and erases the content of the floppy automatically if you tell it to. It will prompt you to change disks whenever the current one is full. To unzip it into the destination PC, insert 1st disk, then when prompted, insert last disk, then insert 1st disk again. After that, number 2,3,4 etc. Downside of this method of course, you have to sit in front of the source PC during the zipping process, and then sit in front of the destination PC during the unzipping process again, and it can take hours.

There's method no. 4: network your pcs, but I have no experience in that.

Method no.1 is the simplest one. If you don't have a cd burner on your source PC or a cd rom in your destination cd, or you lack both, try method 2. Method 3 will literally take you hours to accomplish, judging from the size of the task.



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Edited by - Fear Factor on 11-04-2003 15:10:13

Acutally...FF...I always had better luck making them split at 1.0 meg....

Networking the PCs is simple.

However you will need some extra parts...

Simple:

Find a Nul-Modem cable. Do a direct connect...There are wlakthrus in Windows Help(less) and on the internet.

Intermetiate.

Get 2 network cards with a Crossover cable (NOT a normal network cable) and direct connect them.

Advanced

Pick up 2 network cards, a simple hub, and 2 Ethernet Patch cables.

Setup is easy as long as you have the drivers for the 95 box.

Super Advanced:

Pull the hard drive out of the 95 box and connect it to a free IDE connector on your other computer, and just directly copy the files.

-Arg



Something Awful

With a free audio-edit program like Goldwave, you could cut the music in parts
yourself, and/or save at a lower bitrate which results in smaller filesize.

Edit: link Goldwave .


Edited by - Peet-Air on 11-04-2003 17:42:35

thanks loads everyone... just came flashing back from my dusty mechanics.. it was winzip i used... it must have been.. and @arg, i only need to transfer like 5 songs, not totallying 20 megs at the most.. and the compatibility.. hm.. i dun think networking's worth it, but thnx for mentioning..
and i'll try the goldwave as well, thnx loads.


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Dude, the computer is sooooo old that almost nothing today will run on it. Upgrade. You can get a new and decent computer for around $500-600. Hey, but I bet putting an old one together for nostalgia sakes would be fun.

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agreed. but me sis. just drooling. not my fault.


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@FF, ok... i seriously lost my grip on winzip. i don't have winRAR, and i need it on the receiving computer right? and the receiving comp ain't got no winRAR, but i have a disk for winzip, so i can install... well, the problem here is, i cant get the first few steps. i do what?? i have soledad.wma and what do i do with it?
i right click, then i click add to soledad.zip? then what do i do? i don't see a reduction in file size. and it won't let me move it into the floppy. plz help !!


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Just make sure WinZip is installed on both PCs.

Ok, 1st of all, open Winzip. Click Options - Configurations. Now click the Miscellaneous tab and UNCHECK the "start with Wizard" option. You do not want to start with Wizard. Now close WinZip.

Open Windows Explorer. Insert the Floppy Disk (FD). View your floppy disk, and right-click on content display. Select New - Winzip file. An empty Winzip file should appear on your floppy disk. Now double click on the Zip file, and Winzip should open up, displaying the "content" of the empty zip file.

Now highlight-to-select the files (ALL of them) you want, and drag it to the Winzip window. Drop it in the content display area (the big white empty space ). Winzip will then ask "add # (number of files) to # (name of empty zip file).zip?" Click Yes. Winzip will then start to add the files onto your floppy disk. When Disk 1 is full, it will automatically prompt you to insert disk 2.

Now, some tips: make sure you have enough FDs to begin with. Make sure they're not corrupted, or you will have to start all over again. And you should label the FDs just to make sure you have them in the correct order.

To unzip, insert the 1st FD into the destination PC and double click the Zip file. It will basically tell you what to do next.

That's it. Good luck!



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Edited by - Fear Factor on 13-04-2003 09:41:04

thanks LOADS.. . . . . now all i gotta do, is see if it works, as it seems to be a bit different from how i remember doing it. . .


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