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Copying Old Harddrive

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LyrradMelon

Discussion Starter · Dec 28, 2006

I have an old hard drive with windows 95 on it that will only launch in safe mode. I need to copy some data off it but i cant connect it and my new hard drive (running windows XP) to the computer at the same time because the computer gets confused with which one to launch. The easiest would be if i could just connect the two, so if there is a way to do that please let me know.
I have tried running a few linux live distros but because they are live, I can't copy data off of the drives. Thanks for any help that you have to offer.

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LyrradMelon

Discussion Starter · #3 · Dec 29, 2006

Ya I don't understand why it doesn't just boot off the primary drive either. On boot it tells me to insert an operating medium and press any key to continue. But i solved the problem a bit by using floppy discs to copy the very important files off when I was in safe mode.
I will try disconnecting the disc drives, because I already have the old drive on the secondary line.

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Not sure why but when i had it connected on the same line as the CD drive, it wouldn't boot. After disconnecting the CD drive it worked perfectly. Thanks for the tip.

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LyrradMelon

Discussion Starter · #5 · Dec 29, 2006

An additional question. This drive is so old that it has documents made with wordpad 1.0. These won't open with anything I have, is there a way to open these without finding and installing wordpad 1.0? The file type is WDB

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