IIRC I researched this problem once before, and it has something to do with the dye layer on RW media being too dark and not reflecting enough of the laser beam for the less-sensitive older drives to properly detect. Back in the early 2000s when Win9x systems were still fairly common for me to work on (Ran my own freelance computer repair business at the time), on average half of them would not properly read my utilities discs, which at the time were on CD-RW. 20MB of data at 1200 baud.boy was that fun!Īs for using CD-RW, yes that is a very viable option, but I do need to comment that I've had lots of issues in the past with older systems (Older than about 1998 or so) not being able to properly read CD-RW discs. It had a proprietary hard drive that couldn't simply be plugged into the newer system, the floppy drive didn't work, and I couldn't use Interlnk because the parallel port didn't work and I lacked a crossover serial cable. It's slower than a constipated sloth and can get really tedious if you have a lot of files to transfer, but it works! This is how I backed up the hard drive on a very old 286 portable system. Once they're connected, I just use the terminal program's file transfer capabilities to copy the files.

Basically, I'd open the terminal on both systems, tell one system to dial a fake number (doesn't matter what), then enter the ATA command on the other system, and they'd basically start up their own little dial-up connection to each other.

It takes a bit of setup & would require you to purchase a USB modem for your new PC, but another (last resort) option I've used to transfer files between a new and old system was connecting their modems directly to each other, then using HyperTerminal or something similar to transfer the files.

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