Drive Error - won't boot, can't find

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DreamSlave2112

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I had a strange thign happen to my HP Pavilion last night
I was about to open a file when all of a sudden, Money 2002 wanted to install... all I can figure is when my wife installed TurboTax maybe it came bundled with it or something...
Anyway, we use Quicken, so I hit cancel
Then the computer re-booted, nothing on my part, just rebooted and then I got the Drive Error message, asking me to hit the faqmous CTRL-ALT-DEL to retry, which I did and same message
I rearranged the boot order in the BIOS, nothing
Tried the Restore disks... ah haaa--- couldn't find the drive, so either a cable jiggled loose (highkly unlikely) or the drive went pfft (very likely, since we'd been getting occasional boot errors for about two years now).
So we have concluded that the drive is kaput. We're going to repalce it this week adn here is the question...
Is there anyway we can salvage data off the old drive (pictures, tax records, stuff like that).
 
There's a chance it depends on what's wrong with the drive, before you try to use some recovery software try setting the drive up as slave and installing windows/booting on the new one. Once in windows see if you can access anything on your old drive under My Computer.
 
That's what I was thinking as well, thanks.
Now another question, well, two...
the recovery disks have Win98 on them and I also have an old copy of Win98 as well, can't find the XP disks. Will Win98 be able to read files stored under XP, since I think XP uses a difft filing system (I could be wrong on that or just thinking wrong).
Also, on another computer still running Win98, I was unable to use my Lennox Flash drives. Is there some software that will allow me to use a Flash drive on Win98, since i backed up some files on it?
 
If the drive is formatted to NTFS (XP can use both FAT and NTFS) then win98 wont be able to read it.

For your flash drive, you have to get a driver for it.
 
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