transfering win 98 files to win xp home on a new pc

[johnnovelty]

I have an old pc running win 98 with a failing hard drive
(new bad sectors at every start-up). I have purchased a
new pc with win xp home and would like to transfer files
that are recoverable from old hard drive to new pc. I can
slave the old drive to the new pc. What steps do I follow
then? Thanks in advance.

 

[Phil]

Put the old drive in the new computer as a slave, and boot it up. XP will
see the drive and install it. Then open explorer and copy your files over.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I have an old pc running win 98 with a failing hard drive
(new bad sectors at every start-up). I have purchased a
new pc with win xp home and would like to transfer files
that are recoverable from old hard drive to new pc. I can
slave the old drive to the new pc. What steps do I follow
then? Thanks in advance.

If you know how to copy files from one folder to another on the
same drive, it's exactly the same; the fact that the files are on
a second drive is irrelevant.

Having installed the old drive in the new machine, simply copy
them to the new drive, using any of the standard ways of copying
files: copy and paste, drag and drop, copy command from a command
prompt window, etc.