Neighbour wants help with Win98

She wants me to look at her Win98 based computer tomorrow.
She says she can turn it on, but once on the desktop, everything freezes and you can't do anything. Her daughter would like to recover some files.
Any ideas how this can be done? Thanks.confusedconfused:major

 

if file recovery is all they are after, I would recommend putting the drive into a working computer and exploring it that way, just be sure the working computer has an up to date antivirus, who knows what could be lurking on the old 98 hard drive.

 

How would I go about doing that, via serial port?
Thanks for the reply.

 

More than likely, the drive uses the Parallel ATA interface-- the gray ribbon cable that plugs into an IDE port on a motherboard. Is your computer a laptop or a desktop? If it is a desktop, you probably have the same kind of hard drive in your machine, otherwise you could have the newer Serial ATA hard drive-- but in eithe case, you more than likely still have an IDE port on your motherboard, and thats what you want to use.

The only tricky part (which isnt very tricky) is setting the jumper correctly on the drive so that your computer will recognize it. If you have a free ribbon cable and the drive is going to be the only device on the cable, you need to set the jumper to Master (or Master with no slave present). If you already have a device on the ribbon cable, such as a CDROM, you need to check and make sure that it is an 80-pin ribbon cable, and set the jumper to slave (assumes the CDROM is on the end of the ribbon cable.)

Now that you have a general idea, report back with what you have and we can give you better instructions without so many assumptions.

 

BARTPE works great. Otherwise, a Win98 bootdisc will allow you to look at the drive & pull any documents or music. Other then that, programs are worthless without the program disc.

 

Maybe Safe Mode, F8 while booting, if it works possibly create another account too.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180902

 

Hi
Please help with Windows 98 Backup/Restore.
I have a box of CD's that have data on them that I need.

Unfortunately I no longer have a copy of Windows 98 nor a second PC to install it on.

Is there a genius who has written a program that restores Windows 98 backup files. (nnn.qic).

 

This is a completely separate topic and should be posted in its own thread, for future reference. If a Mod sees this, feel free to edit my post accordingly.

That said, .qic files created in Windows 95 or 98 backup can be restored either by the restore method in the OS in which they were made, or by a 3rd party application in Windows 2000/XP, such as Roxio Backup My PC that can 'extract' the information from a .qic file.

I am not aware of a free program to do this, other than one based in the Unix command line, found here (not very user friendly at all, unless you're extremely comfortable with the command line.) http://www.fpns.net/willy/msbackup.htm


You also might try looking through the various backup programs listed in MajorGeeks to see if a freeware or shareware application can extract from .qic files http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads3.html