Computer Wizard help needed.

Greaser · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Computer Wizard help needed.

ABC123 · Uber Guru

I have old picks on a drive that windows 10 won't open.

When I get a chance, I'll move the to a stick and see if my old XP laptop will open them.

Download.cnet.com has some ideas

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I have found with this site that the free stuff isn't always the best.

ABC123 · Uber Guru

This one looks good

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Greaser · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

All I have is a hard drive....How do I transfer them to a place to see what's on the hard drive?

Can't recover files you can't see.

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Not a computer expert, and certainly not on PCs, but maybe you can set up a virtual windows 98 system to work within winxows 10?

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-get-the-windows-98-experience-on-todays-pcs

Greaser · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

MC wrote:
Not a computer expert, and certainly not on PCs, but maybe you can set up a virtual windows 98 system to work within winxows 10?
https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-get-the-windows-98-experience-on-todays-pcs

I'm afraid this is already over my head....don't understand how

this works or how to go about doing it from reading the link.

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I've never used it, and it does look a little complicated, so probably not helpful. My understanding is that you can set up your machine to run windows 98 inside of windows 10, kinda like a software package, but I've been using Macs for the past two decades, so my knowledge runs out there.

Hopefully somebody more knowledgeable than I can help you out.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Your best bet might be to find a super cheap old laptop with XP or 98 and use that one to read the drives.
I'm in the midst of trying to copy old VHS tapes to DVD using a Video capture device I bought 12 years ago. It plugs into your USB and has RCA plugs on it. My windows 10 loaded the software but can't seem to activate the driver so I have my old Windows XP laptop fired up. I had to walk away from it as I got it all set up and got the "blue screen of death". A reboot takes about 8 minutes because it's so old so here I am...

ABC123 · Uber Guru

Yes we are not experts either biggrin

I would suggest you pick up a IDE computer.

There is one on kijiji Ontario for $30

Then you could recover and save the pics elsewhere.

But then again, no way of telling if that computer is going to find the files confuse

Greaser · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Canadian Poncho wrote:
Your best bet might be to find a super cheap old laptop with XP or 98 and use that one to read the drives.
I'm in the midst of trying to copy old VHS tapes to DVD using a Video capture device I bought 12 years ago. It plugs into your USB and has RCA plugs on it. My windows 10 loaded the software but can't seem to activate the driver so I have my old Windows XP laptop fired up. I had to walk away from it as I got it all set up and got the "blue screen of death". A reboot takes about 8 minutes because it's so old so here I am...

I have done work on old VHS tapes and still have it set up to do in the basement.

I have a VHS player plugged into a recordable DVD player and everything is recorded onto a recordable DVD disc.

A disc I think would be easier to transfer onto a computer if you wanted.

As for my hard drive issue,I think your right, I'll have to find (hopefully just borrow) a Windows 98 machine to

open the hard drive and transfer files onto for Windows 10 to read.

I was hoping someone knew of a easy way of getting it onto a Windows 10 PC without a 98 machine.

-G

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

My video capture gizmo is working. I'm currently copying a 90 minute video onto the computer and then can do some editing and burn it onto a DVD. Only 5 or 6 more to do.....