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I've been sorting through old junk on an old office computer, sorting things I want to keep from the garbage. Many of the programs don't work on it anymore. It's ancient, and it's getting much worse.

It has the original cdrom drive, and two newer cdrw drives (one internal and one external). The internal one has been on the computer for years, and has worked before. The external one I just hooked up to see if it would make a difference, which it didn't. None of which will read a cd, or communicate with the computer anymore. The burner's program won't even open up on the computer anymore either. I want to burn this stuff to a disk so the computer can be trashed. What on earth is causing this?

Any clues, hints, suggestions, or help, is greatly appreciated.
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instead of fighting with drives that don't work it might be easier to use a stick or thumb drive or whatever they call them to transfer your files.
 

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I thought about that, and may just have to get one. A flash drive, right?

I don't know if it will understand that a device is connected through the usb though...
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What operating system is it running. Most of the later os's will not need drivers for a flash drive. On s side note I've even used my mp3 player for transfering files.
 

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you might try just pulling the HD. and then buy a case to make your old enternal Hd a external HD. then you can keep the HD as a extra storage device.
 

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you might try just pulling the HD. and then buy a case to make your old enternal Hd a external HD. then you can keep the HD as a extra storage device.
Good plan. Or just slave the old drive into another computer and get your files that way.
 

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What operating system is it running. Most of the later os's will not need drivers for a flash drive. On s side note I've even used my mp3 player for transfering files.
Windows 2000.
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yeah, I also vote for putting the harddrive in another computer or a drive enclosure. If you do not want to do that, try hooking it up to a network that has the computer you want to transfer the files to and transfer them via the LAN. you might have to set up a shared folder, but that would be it.

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