License transfer utility

[Dogbert]

I just tried this out, since I will be away for a few days and I would like to bring the game along (no internet where I'm going). However, the utility only seems to allow me to transfer directly to a floppy disk, rather than the CD I was planning on burning. The other computer does not have a floppy drive installed at all... bummer.

I guess I could just rip my floppy drive out and bring it along... hmmm

"Place the transfer disk you created on the target computer in a removable drive on this computer." What the heck? ... the target computer is 100km away... this is getting really frustrating.

[Redwolf]

CD burning is not what you have as "a drive letter", hence it won't work.

Try a USB stick, Microcenter has 1 GB sticks for $17 today.

A CF card reader and a CF card would work, too.

[NormKoger]

As long as the operating system sees whatever device you want to use as a freely writable lettered drive, without going through some kind of additional step, the device should work in the transfer utility.

I deliberately avoided any checks for device characteristics, other than the ability to write and read. If your system has a driver that manages a bank of a million monkeys randomly hammering out data until a matching file is created, and that "device" reports to the operating system that it can write and read files, it should work. It might be noisy, but it should work.

USB flash drives work well, and you don't have to worry about flying poo.

[Dogbert]

I finally managed to get it working using a virtual disk drive, heh.

[JaguarUSF]

Where is this "flying poo" feature I've heard so much about?

[NormKoger]

Where is this "flying poo" feature I've heard so much about?I'm not sure you'd call it a feature. It's one of the down sides of using an MMRWA (Million monkey read-write array) device. We tried one here for a while, but the CDC had us shut it down during the last Ebola scare.

[solops]

Well,
I'm going on a trip tomorrow and the transfer utility does not "see" my 512meg USB memory stick in drive J. I never got a chance to specify a drive. When I run the utility I get a "No disk in drive" error.

What do I do now?

[solops]

OK. I finally got it to work by ignoring a blizzard of error messages, closing my eyes and praying. This utility might need a little cleaning up.