My neighbour's computer, an ancient beast of a machine running Windows 95, has recently died. She's got herself a new machine, but there's some data on the old one that she'd like rescued, so I said I'd help. Since we don't know exactly what's wrong with the old one and it won't turn on at all apart from a couple of flashing LEDs, I thought the best thing to do would be to plug the hard drive into a new machine and manually take out any info needed.
I would expect a WinXP machine to be able to read the '95 formatted HDD OK, but what about extracting the old address book and turning it into a format a modern email client could read? Is this going to be as simple as using an import/export function on a program? Is it even possible?
I just wanted to check with some of the tech experts on here before I go out of my way dismantling the old thing under the pretense that I can do something impossible
I figure if it comes down to it, I can probably back the whole thing up onto a DVDR or two, but as I say it'd be good to know beforehand what, if anything, we'll be able to do with it.
Cheers in advance.
I would expect a WinXP machine to be able to read the '95 formatted HDD OK, but what about extracting the old address book and turning it into a format a modern email client could read? Is this going to be as simple as using an import/export function on a program? Is it even possible?
I just wanted to check with some of the tech experts on here before I go out of my way dismantling the old thing under the pretense that I can do something impossible
I figure if it comes down to it, I can probably back the whole thing up onto a DVDR or two, but as I say it'd be good to know beforehand what, if anything, we'll be able to do with it.
Cheers in advance.
