X-ray wrote:
What I thought of doing is taking the drive out of the laptop and connecting it as a slave to my desktop. Is this feasible? Are there any pitfalls? I know I have to jumper the drive as slave, but what else do I need to do?
I can't see why it wouldn't work in theory. I just hope the drive was partitioned and she kept her data separate from the OS partition.
'Cos I dunno what the Win98 would have done to it, apart from change the filesystem from NTFS to FAT32 ( and probably formatted it along the way ??)
Atleast with Win98 being a smaller than XP it shouldn't have overwritten anything except the old XP system files
Anyhoo.. the first thing that you must do, is use something like Norton's Ghost to make a drive image, and if possible try and recover the files from a copy of that image.
