Replacement CD Writer

"Donna Basford" <DonnaBasford.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ED58E625-B0D6-4ADE-AB09-F7BBF4034BD7@microsoft.com...
> We have an old machine running Widows 95 on which the CD writer has
> recently
> broken. We have a lot of other programmes on the machine and do not want
> to
> update the running system but are having difficulty getting a CD writer
> that
> will run on Widows 95. Can anyone suggest a relacement and where it is
> available.
>
> Thanks.

Does your old system have USB ports? If so, get one of those USB key drives.
I think they come with as much as 8gb.

In message <uxg5L#bGJHA.2408@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, William R. Cousert
<wrcousert.TakeThisOut@NOSPAMyahoo.com> writes
>
>"Donna Basford" <DonnaBasford.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:ED58E625-B0D6-4ADE-AB09-F7BBF4034BD7@microsoft.com...
>> We have an old machine running Widows 95 on which the CD writer has
>> recently
>> broken. We have a lot of other programmes on the machine and do not want
>> to
>> update the running system but are having difficulty getting a CD writer
>> that
>> will run on Widows 95. Can anyone suggest a relacement and where it is
>> available.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>Does your old system have USB ports? If so, get one of those USB key drives.
>I think they come with as much as 8gb.
>
>
She's running "Widows 95" - when its husband died, it took the USB
support with it ... seriously, (a) getting USB to work _at all_ under
'95 rather than '98 was fiddly (it could be done), (b) finding '9x
drivers for USB pens even under '98 is rather hit-and-miss. I don't know
if the "universal USB driver" that's around works under '95.

Rereading the original post above, I think the OP wants to keep the
original system going, not just transfer the data. In which case
(assuming I've interpreted the post correctly), we probably ought to
know what you want to actually _do_ with a CD writer: use it to write
CDs, obviously, but does it have to be with whatever software was
originally what you used, or would anything do? Burn4free (I think
that's the name) seems to be pretty tolerant of the hardware it is used
with, and I suspect would run under '95 - it's free, anyway, so worth a
try; there are other similar prog.s out there too. What were you
originally using to do the writing - one of the big two (Nero from
Nero/Ahead, or Easy CD Creator from Avantec/Roxio), some other software
whose only function was to handle CD writing, or (worst case) some
application of which CD writing was only a part of what you used it for?
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