help with a HDD containing Win98

[AND1]

Hi everybody, well my friend had a computer which was pretty old. It had windows 98 on it and he had many old Greek songs stored on it (2200). A transformer blew near his house and sent a huge electric bolt that fired his power supply and computer.

He gave me his hard drive which contains widows 98 to at least save the songs he had on it. But when I placed the hard drive as a slave my computer didn't recognize it. I have XP. Is there any way I get those songs off it.

I also tried it on my 2nd comp. I took out the HDD and placed my friends as the primary it started up but said it has some incompatible files.

[housepig]

you could try this:

put the drive in your second computer, along with another hdd that has enough space to copy the files you need.

download the Ultimate Boot CD and make a bootable disc out of it.

boot using the UBCD, boot into FreeDOS and use the dir command to see what's on the old disc, and the xcopy command to copy any files over to the other drive.

(I suppose you could just download FreeDOS and do the same thing, but the UBCD has some great tools on it for disc information, recovery and hard drive repair).

[AND1]

I figured it out. I just took all the jumpers out, therefore making it a slave by default and it work. Thanks for your help anyway.