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

[Val Harris]

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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The Ubuntu 9.04 CD has memtest on it.  If you're thinking about loading 
Ubuntu, you can test before you install.  If the memory is good, then 
you can figure out how to save off the user data from the Win98 
partition.  (Hopefully, the user was smart enough to keep track of where 
all the important stuff was put!)

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