salvaging files NEED HELP PLEASE

[VoLcOm_PiNoY]

okk my comp just got all screwed up and now windows won't boot....i couldn't get around it except for formatting which i definately didn't want to do...my hard drive was partioned into 2 drives and i really need a lot of the documents that are on the non windows drive...so i tried taking the drive out and am trying ot install it into my brothers computer just so i can retrieve my files....is there a way to install a second hard drive without formatting it ??? i can view my drive through fdisk but i cant see it through explorer in windows...btw my brothers comp is running 98 and is also partioned........PLEASE HELP !! t hansk guys

[meese]

What operating system is on your drive? You do not need to format the drive before installing it in another pc. If you are connecting the drive to the same IDE cable as you brothers drive, you need to make your drive a slave. Now if you used Windows 2000 or XP and formated your drive using the NTFS file system, the windows 98 machine will not be able to read from your drive. Windows 98 use FAT32. If that is the case you need to find a pc that can read the NTFS file system.

[nukes]

Just plug it in as a slave drive, and add it into the BIOS on you're bros machine. Also, if the documents you want to keep are on the non-windows partition, then you don't need to format it, just format the windows one, and when you've re-installed the files will still be on your D: drive. (presuming the drive letter was D: and you haven't altered it using lastdrive or reserving letters etc)

[VoLcOm_PiNoY]

thanks for the info guys...yeaa my bro's comp is 98 and my old one was xp...i guess ill have to find anotehr comp : /