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Can you read data or files from my old computer or hard drive, and write them to another drive, or a CD, floppy, ZIP disk?

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Can you read data or files from my old computer or hard drive, and write them to another drive, or a CD, floppy, ZIP disk?

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Also review my answer to reading 800K diskettes, at this link. Customers ask me to read their old drives, often in a casual way – that is for little or no cost. I consider file transfer or file recover as a professional, business service. I don’t do such work casually, as it takes time; there is a risk of loss of your files; and there are no guarantees of success. You have not described your situation, so I really can’t respond in detail. What computer, running what operating system, produced these files, for instance? To what computer do you want to “move” these files? And what kind of files, that may or may not be important. And what can your new computer read – floppy, CD, ZIP disk, etc.? It takes time to work through all that, plus the work itself, and my time has a cost. The specific risks are: loss or damage in shipping of your drives, possible damage when hooking the drives to a new computer, loss while at work with your drive. Also, your drive may be damaged already. We take ev

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