Moving data files to another computer

[Rick S.]

My sister recently called me from many miles away. She is
restricted to a wheelchair and uses her computer
extensively. Her old Dell computer running Windows 98SE
recently cannot boot into windows. She gets messages that
system cannot find 1)shlwapi.dll and 2) explorer.exe and
that she must reinstall windows. She has a lot of data
files (family treemaker, photos, designed greeting cards,
ect.) she don't want to lose. Is there a way to connect
her computer to one running Windows XP Home Edition via a
parallel connection between the 2 computers so she can
transfer her data files to the WinXP Home computer? I am
going to visit with her during Thanksgiving and she is
bringing her computer for me to fix. The research I have
done on this involves being able to configure her
computer before I can transfer her data files. I can't
configure her computer because I can't boot into windows
on her computer even in safe mode. My other alternative
that I know of is to use my Win98 bootdisk on her system
and then search for and transfer her data files on
floppies using DOS. I can do this no problem, but I am
hoping for a faster way via a direct connection. My
brother also runs Win98, so I am going to also copy the 2
files mentioned above (shlwapi.dll and explorer.exe)and
place them into the proper folders on my sister's
computer. I am hoping this will let her boot into
windows. Any helpful responses and advice would be
greatfully appreciated... --Thanks, Rick S.

 

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-----Original Message-----
My sister recently called me from many miles away. She is
restricted to a wheelchair and uses her computer
extensively. Her old Dell computer running Windows 98SE
recently cannot boot into windows. She gets messages that
system cannot find 1)shlwapi.dll and 2) explorer.exe and
that she must reinstall windows. She has a lot of data
files (family treemaker, photos, designed greeting cards,
ect.) she don't want to lose. Is there a way to connect
her computer to one running Windows XP Home Edition via a
parallel connection between the 2 computers so she can
transfer her data files to the WinXP Home computer? I am
going to visit with her during Thanksgiving and she is
bringing her computer for me to fix. The research I have
done on this involves being able to configure her
computer before I can transfer her data files. I can't
configure her computer because I can't boot into windows
on her computer even in safe mode. My other alternative
that I know of is to use my Win98 bootdisk on her system
and then search for and transfer her data files on
floppies using DOS. I can do this no problem, but I am
hoping for a faster way via a direct connection. My
brother also runs Win98, so I am going to also copy the 2
files mentioned above (shlwapi.dll and explorer.exe)and
place them into the proper folders on my sister's
computer. I am hoping this will let her boot into
windows. Any helpful responses and advice would be
greatfully appreciated... --Thanks, Rick S.

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You can take the hard drive out of the 98 and connect it
to the xp box by unpluging the cd-rom in the xp box. The
cd should be the secondary master so you shouldn't have
to make any jumper changes to the old 98 hard drive. NTFS
(xp) will read Fat32 (98) with out any problem. Start the
xp box normally after connecting the 98 HDD to where the
cd-rom is on the xp box. The 98 HDD should be seen as
drive d:. Hope that helps.