I have a really ancient laptop (1996 Toshiba Satellite Pro Windows 95) and I can't figure how to transfer files from it to my other computers.

It has an external floppy drive with thee FDD floppy case. But it stopped working. I don't know how to fix hardware. I need my floppy drive.

The CD drive occasionally works...but the laptop doesn't have a CD writer.


So I was wondering. There are a bunch of USB to Serial adapters, but can you get one the other way around, so I can use my USB flash drive on my laptop?

I think you should be able to dump your HD onto a flashdrive, then toss the laptop, either that or fix the darned thing lol Using a flash drive should show up as a new one in your 'My Computer', may have to restart a time or two, not remembering here but once it is accepted you should be able to export files to it then transfer them to the other PC. I think though that if they are FAT files and your other systems are XP or newer then you need a dual boot system in order to read them as the newer OS's files are formatted differently (NTF? ManI am forgetting). In such a case if you just want to copy the info you have but can't at the time enter it into your other machines then buy a 10$ beater with a floppy and make up a set, deal with it later. this is by no means concise and is off the hip from me, a rusting hulk , but seeing as how dead it is around here maybe if I post some wrong junk someone will eventually crawl outta the wood-work and give ya a decent answer,
Cheers to the new year arriving and the best to One and All!!


Regards,

Serge

Hello gents. I think xantan is saying he doesn't even have usb ports on this laptop. This makes everything quite difficult. What you could do though, is either get an IDE to USB adapter, one that works on those 2.5" laptop hdd's (if that's even what is in your laptop). If that doesn't work, you could try connecting the two computers via their NIC's, setup a small network with only the two computers, setup an FTP server or whatnot on the one you wanna transfer your data to, and then, you guessed it: transfer the data.
Btw, you prolly won't even need an ftp server, just setup file sharing on windows (if that's what you're using, and your ancient laptop is running something that isn't win95 )

But my laptop is running Windows 95.

How do I get my laptop to connect with another one?

I'm thinking I may as well just get a new external floppy drive, are those even sold anymore?