I need help recovering data from hard drive.

[DZip]

I need to recover data from a hard drive that was in a XP machine. This machine has a bad motherboard and will not even post. My question is this: can I read the data from the hard drive using my backup computer that runs W98se? I'm not sure if the XP hard drive was formated NTFS or fat32. I would set the XP hard drive as a slave drive.

Thank you.

 

[Stablecannon]

Yes if it's FAT32, not sure about NTFS though.

 

[QueBert]

win98 won't read NTFS, BUT... maybe there's an older version of Partition Magic that'll run under win98 that supports NTFS. It has a partition converter, you can go from NTFS to Fat32. As always with a program like PM, it can cause problems, but as far as straight reading the NFTS drive under 98, it's not going to happen. Not unless some company makes a program that allows this.

 

[DZip]

Thanks for the INFO.

 

[NJLOAD]

You can try this also. Buy a USB hard drive enclosure and hook up to a computer running XP if is NTFS file system. I just bought one for 29.00 and change. Great to have around for testing Hard Drives or running virus checks on infected drives.

NJLOAD