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Not a fan of Windows : An update
[See this post for the background]
The generic driver that I’ve been using seems like it may not be the problem. I’m running AVG and that may be having an effect when it tries to do an update, so I’ve disabled that for the moment. Also, the network (which is peer-to-peer not server / client) doesn’t seem to like it when any of the machines are turned off, so that may have also have been cocking things up. Anyway, I’ve left it going overnight tonight and we’ll see what happens.
I’ve now tried this transfer several times, in several different combinations of methods and machines, and there’s been a problem somewhere along the line with each one. (Admittedly, the machine that the files are coming from is the same in each combination). Each time I re-start the transfer, though, I have to re-start from the beginning because of the limitations of 98; if the folder already exists, it asks if you want to overwrite it. If you say “yes”, because you didn’t finish copying all the files last time, then it re-copies all the files. If you say “no”, in the hope that it will then ask you the question for each subsequent file, it just doesn’t transfer anything. Which doesn’t make this task any damn easier.
So I make my plea once more for anyone out there that’s using a Western Digital Black Passport Drive with Windows 98SE – how did you do it?
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