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by vollie6

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I have a Digital 5000 PC, running WinNT 4.0, here at work. My problem is this...I have an old Dell GXMT 5166 hard drive that has a file on it that has to be copied to the Digital 5000 PC for a department here. I can't copy the file because it is to big and there's no ZIP drives available. I need to install the other hard drive and make it Drive D but I have no idea how to do this.

Can anyone assist? Also, once it's installed, is it really easy to copy the one file (database file) onto the new hard drive then removing the older hard drive?

Thanks for assisting me. Chaz? Any ideas

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by opatzg9

Sounds like you've really got a couple of choices, 1 load the drive as a slave in the digital5000 however you do run a risk of corrupting the hard drive by having it accessed by diferent circuitry,I'ld opt in stead for a network card and hook it up on the network and copy it that way. It just seems less intrusive and fewer chances of zapping the drive or losin the FAT table. Other than that they do make portable zip drives.

by vollie6

Where I work the Networking Department will NOT let me hook it up to the server and copy it that way.

by cglrcng9

E-mail me & I will give you the address of someone that is selling perfect internal Zip 100's for about $20.00 shipped (I've bought & tested 2 of them w/ GRC.com's TIP). Just install it and Zip off the file.

by thechas

There getting to be REAL hard to find, but it sounds like a parallel port external drive enclosure is your only option.

If you had the option of installing the drive inside a PC, you could simply jumper it as the slave drive, and make sure the PCs drive is jumpered to master with slave present.
Boot up, copy the file, shut down, and remove the drive.
Remember to reset the master drives jumpers.

If this was not an NT system, you could use one of the USB drive enclosures.

Is there a networked PC that you could be allowed to temporarily install the drive in as a Slave, and copy the file onto that PC, then onto the server?

Other options:
Non-networked PC with CD burner, and burn the file onto a CD.

Use ZIP software, (www.winzip.com) and span the file across multiple floppies.

Use one of the many freeware programs to break up the file into 1MB sections for e-mail attachments. Copy the files onto floppies, and reconstruct the origianal file.

Chas

by csmith

It looks like you should backup to floppies.
Then restore to the Digital 5000.
This is slow and aukward, but with the backup copy of the file on the floppies, you have insurance if something goes wrong.
Regards, Chris

by paulp

Is there anyone in your office that has a CD- Writer that you could borrow for a while? You didn't mention the size of the file, but there's a lot more room on the CD than there is on a floppy.

If you need assistance, I suggest getting one of your network people to either help you or handle this matter entirely. Assuming this database is a legitimate aspect of the business and company you work for, I would say your network people would be OBLIGATED to help you. If they refuse I would continue up the chain of command until you find someone willing to settle this. A situation like yours is exactly the reason you have network people on staff.

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