Re: Mmmmmmm!

The message <MPG.1dd055bb57eaa49d98a35b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
from Befunge Sudoku <daviddotbudd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:
> In article <313030303230303843663BDB97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> rusty.hinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

> > > I'd be very tempted to move all his data files, which will be
> > > OK, then wipe it completely. Simpler, guaranteed.
> >
> > I hope I can find them all - it's really a muddle - worse than mine.

> Use the Search/Find utility to look for all .doc, then .xls,
> then.txt, etc, and copy the result of each run from the search
> result window to (say) CD ?

He's only getting his first CD-RW with the one I'm molishing for him.
All there is on the chamine is one HD, floppy and CD-ROM.

I plan on putting another HD in it and transferring to that. I hope to
avoid transferring any nasties. (There will be tiffs, gifs, jpegs, SWFs
etc TAAAW, and probably some essential exe files received via emu.

Ah well, I have plenty of time ATM.

> Or, if the new chamine is bigger, diskwise, and they usually
> are, copy the whole damn disk over, then delete the copied
> Windows folder for safety. You could even put the old disk into
> the new machine as a second disk, just make sure it isn't in
> the boot sequence.

Boot sequence? I'd put it in as HD1 in that case, would I? Master on
IDE2, or as slave on IDE1?

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