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| Metal Man88 Posts: 554/701 |
I once, lacking any working CD-rom and only an ethernet card, but no drivers for it, forced Windows to use the few files it did have to run the card without most of its drivers, then glitchily proceeded to download the files I needed. It was odd, as at first it seemed like it wouldn't work, but after smacking the installation dialog down and half-installing it three times, it worked. O_o
Another time I had to email myself to transfer it, though not quite as strange. |
| Zidane Posts: 82/105 |
I think your post may have been easier to understand if you just said that you used a CD-RW to transfer files between computers located in different houses, which were far from each other. 
The worst I've had to do for copying files from one computer to another was to use a floppy to transfer more than a hundred files, one at a time. |
| Raccoon Sam Posts: 882/1040 |
Go to Computer A and erase the CD-RW. Go to Computer B and burn a certain folder in it. Go to Computer A and import the folder to the computer from the CD, and erase the disc. Go to Computer B and burn another folder in it. Go to Computer A and import the folder to the computer from the CD, and erase the disc. Go to Computer B, burn a certain application in it. Go to Computer A, import the application to it, and Merge the two files mentioned above.
JESUS it was pain. Keep in Mind that Computer A is the one I'm on right now and Computer B is at my cousin's house, which is quite far. |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 1126/1312 |
That's because floppy drives don't usually check that the data was written correctly  |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4433/5072 |
Hah, I've been there, though not to that extent. When I got my new HD a few years ago it had me make a recovery disk of some sort. I went through 12 disks before I got one that worked. It's annoying when the write (which is sloooooow) completes just fine but THEN it tells you the disk is defective.  |
| Boom.dk Posts: 343/356 |
I once transferred 50 megabytes using split files on floppy disks. And half of them were faulty. |
| Sukasa Posts: 1936/2068 |
Interesting.
The most unusual transfer method I ever had to use was moving one hard drive form one computer to another and back again. Other than that, CD-ROMs are the way to go for me. If I run out of thsoe, however, then your N64 Transfer method sounds like a good one.  |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4422/5072 |
Thought it might be interesting to discuss unusual ways you've transferred files from one computer to another.
One time I was trying to set up this old computer with Win98, but it needed a lot of drivers. It had no USB, no network driver, and my desktop had no floppy drive, so there was pretty much no way to get the drivers onto it without disassembling it and sticking the HD in another computer or burning it to a CD, and since I only needed one file (once it had a network driver I could download the rest) and had no blank CDs it seemed quite a waste to do it that way. Then I got an idea... when I first got into N64 hacking with Gameshark, to test my CD burner I burned the hacking tools to a CD. So I loaded this program up on the desktop and proceeded to upload the driver into Mario 64's memory, then run the program on the other computer, copy it out of the N64, and run it. Worked great.  |
