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

[Dennis Myhand]

First way is to pull the hard drive and hook it up in another machine 
and suck the data needed off the drive.  Second way is a handy little 
tool which will connect to and power the drive on one end and plug into 
USB two on another machine and get the data you need to save from it.

You might want to download, burn to CD, and run Memtest-86 to see if the 
memory if flaky.

HTH, Dennis in Victoria

Fred James wrote:
> 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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