[NTLUG:Discuss] slightly OT - external USB hard drive

Fred James fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net
Thu Oct 22 18:53:53 CDT 2009


All
(pardon the slightly OT)
The machine in question is currently running Windows 98 SE
The problem is to save the user content and convert the machine to Linux 
(only)

The OT part is ...
    (a) best way to get the data from the W98SE box? - neither my 
external USB hard drive or my USB flash memory will work on that OS
    (b) the box has been crashing/freezing a lot, in what appears to be 
your basic "memory leak" problem - no errors messages presented - is 
there a good/safe way to test/inspect the memory?
    (b.1) I hate to do all the work to find the Linux suffered on the 
machine as well, just because the memory was flaky.

Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
Regards
Fred James




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