Knoppix looks pretty hot
My suggestion was going to be for you to buy an external usb/firewire enclosure (roughly $20 US).. These allow you to create a portable 2.5 laptop drive into a portable drive.. However, I'm all about the free solutions, and if Knoppix will read your files fine, then there's no need to go that route..
I'm going to throw something else out there, though... If she overwrote XP with 98, there's a good chance in order for her to do that she wiped the drive.. I haven't done it lately, lol, but I thought I recalled reading that XP wouldn't let you "downgrade/downrev" to an older OS.. Could be way off, but.. Something to think about.. Especially considering XP generally uses NTFS filing system, which is incompatitable with win9x, I believe....
