To the old school guys,
My neighbor is an older fellow who is pretty lonely since his son died and he wants to upgrade his computer to get on Craigslist. I'd like to help him out. Anyhow, long story short, his old PC is Windows 98 and has about 6 MB of pictures of cars he's owned throughout the years. He wants to keep these pictures. Only problem is, I can't really find a plug n play USB drive for Windows 98 so I have to basically have to use 2" floppy which I'm not all that familiar with.
The problem is his FDD is janky. It's 8 years old and was grimy and caked with dust. The A: drive icon in Win 98 shows a disk inside even after you eject the disk. It can read the disk but then it gets stuck on that disk. I thought a switch was stuck open, so I took off the jacket and cleaned all the springs out with WD40. Now it makes a BRRRRR noise which he said it did before until one day it just stopped (again, the mechanical issue). So cleaning out the dust just revealed the scratched bearing or whatever.
I'm having problems troubleshooting this disk because I'm not familiar with IDE. I think I've attached the cables wrong. These IDE cables don't have the middle notch that lines up to tell me the right orientation. They do have a red dye streak on one side.
I'm trying to figure out how to orient the IDE cable. It DOES go in both ways and on both sides. But after I hook up the BIOS keeps scanning for the slave IDE, so I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong. Any help?
My neighbor is an older fellow who is pretty lonely since his son died and he wants to upgrade his computer to get on Craigslist. I'd like to help him out. Anyhow, long story short, his old PC is Windows 98 and has about 6 MB of pictures of cars he's owned throughout the years. He wants to keep these pictures. Only problem is, I can't really find a plug n play USB drive for Windows 98 so I have to basically have to use 2" floppy which I'm not all that familiar with.
The problem is his FDD is janky. It's 8 years old and was grimy and caked with dust. The A: drive icon in Win 98 shows a disk inside even after you eject the disk. It can read the disk but then it gets stuck on that disk. I thought a switch was stuck open, so I took off the jacket and cleaned all the springs out with WD40. Now it makes a BRRRRR noise which he said it did before until one day it just stopped (again, the mechanical issue). So cleaning out the dust just revealed the scratched bearing or whatever.
I'm having problems troubleshooting this disk because I'm not familiar with IDE. I think I've attached the cables wrong. These IDE cables don't have the middle notch that lines up to tell me the right orientation. They do have a red dye streak on one side.
I'm trying to figure out how to orient the IDE cable. It DOES go in both ways and on both sides. But after I hook up the BIOS keeps scanning for the slave IDE, so I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong. Any help?
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