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mavis
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Hello everybody, have an emergency I was hoping you could help me with ...
I just set up my new rig and was trying to install a Bluetooth dongle on my wife's ANCIENT Win98 laptop ... anyway, the Bluetooth drivers JACKED her laptop up BADLY, now it won't even boot, there's a problem with explorer.exe. I think it is pretty much beyond repair, which leaves only salvaging as an option.
My question is, can I somehow connect her laptop's HDD to my computer, hide it during boot (since it has it's own MBR) and then access its files from within WinXP Pro on my PC? Please say yes, she is freaking out over losing about 5 years worth of pics and documents which are irreplaceable ... I just need to know if I can plug her laptop's HDD into my mobo somehow (as a slave drive or whatever) and access its files from WinXP ...
thanks / mavis
I just set up my new rig and was trying to install a Bluetooth dongle on my wife's ANCIENT Win98 laptop ... anyway, the Bluetooth drivers JACKED her laptop up BADLY, now it won't even boot, there's a problem with explorer.exe. I think it is pretty much beyond repair, which leaves only salvaging as an option.
My question is, can I somehow connect her laptop's HDD to my computer, hide it during boot (since it has it's own MBR) and then access its files from within WinXP Pro on my PC? Please say yes, she is freaking out over losing about 5 years worth of pics and documents which are irreplaceable ... I just need to know if I can plug her laptop's HDD into my mobo somehow (as a slave drive or whatever) and access its files from WinXP ...
thanks / mavis