Windows 95 Blue Screen of death

February 5, 2008

I have an old 1996 HP Pavilion Desktop running Windows 95. A few years ago my

youngest keep turning it off and on until and it froze up one day. It's been

that way for 3 year. Now, I need to recover some data off the HD that has

been safely stored, I hope all these years. This is what happens after I turn

it on. It starts out normal then it says windows wasn’t turned off right.

Then it asked to starts a scandisk and I due. That finishes and it tries to

start but windows doesn't start all I get is the desktop wallpaper with a

photo that is distorted with no icons. I can it F1 and F8 and ctrl/alt/delete

but I do not have any of the original disks and DO NOT and cannot lose any of

the info on the hard drive. The main thing I need is the data and secondary

is getting the computer to work again. Can you please Help!!!

February 5, 2008

Re: Windows 95 Blue Screen of death

Mount the hard drive (slave it) in another computer and you should be

able to access your files from the working Windows installation in that

other computer.

John

saveme wrote:

> I have an old 1996 HP Pavilion Desktop running Windows 95. A few years ago my

> youngest keep turning it off and on until and it froze up one day. It's been

> that way for 3 year. Now, I need to recover some data off the HD that has

> been safely stored, I hope all these years. This is what happens after I turn

> it on. It starts out normal then it says windows wasn’t turned off right.

> Then it asked to starts a scandisk and I due. That finishes and it tries to

> start but windows doesn't start all I get is the desktop wallpaper with a

> photo that is distorted with no icons. I can it F1 and F8 and ctrl/alt/delete

> but I do not have any of the original disks and DO NOT and cannot lose any of

> the info on the hard drive. The main thing I need is the data and secondary

> is getting the computer to work again. Can you please Help!!!

February 5, 2008

Re: Windows 95 Blue Screen of death

Ok, sounds good. I have a 2003 xp. How do I hook them up "slave it"?

"John John" wrote:

> Mount the hard drive (slave it) in another computer and you should be

> able to access your files from the working Windows installation in that

> other computer.

>

> John

>

> saveme wrote:

>

> > I have an old 1996 HP Pavilion Desktop running Windows 95. A few years ago my

> > youngest keep turning it off and on until and it froze up one day. It's been

> > that way for 3 year. Now, I need to recover some data off the HD that has

> > been safely stored, I hope all these years. This is what happens after I turn

> > it on. It starts out normal then it says windows wasn’t turned off right.

> > Then it asked to starts a scandisk and I due. That finishes and it tries to

> > start but windows doesn't start all I get is the desktop wallpaper with a

> > photo that is distorted with no icons. I can it F1 and F8 and ctrl/alt/delete

> > but I do not have any of the original disks and DO NOT and cannot lose any of

> > the info on the hard drive. The main thing I need is the data and secondary

> > is getting the computer to work again. Can you please Help!!!

>

February 5, 2008

Re: Windows 95 Blue Screen of death

Pull the hard drive out of the Windows 95 computer and put it in the XP

computer. Your old Windows 95 computer is most probably connected to

one of the IDE controllers, just connect the drive to the same type of

controller connection in your XP computer. There are two connections to

the drive, the power connection and the data cable connection.

http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/how-to-install-a-hard-drive-137179.php

John

saveme wrote:

> Ok, sounds good. I have a 2003 xp. How do I hook them up "slave it"?

>

> "John John" wrote:

>

>>Mount the hard drive (slave it) in another computer and you should be

>>able to access your files from the working Windows installation in that

>>other computer.

>>

>>John

>>

>>saveme wrote:

>>

>>>I have an old 1996 HP Pavilion Desktop running Windows 95. A few years ago my

>>>youngest keep turning it off and on until and it froze up one day. It's been

>>>that way for 3 year. Now, I need to recover some data off the HD that has

>>>been safely stored, I hope all these years. This is what happens after I turn

>>>it on. It starts out normal then it says windows wasn’t turned off right.

>>>Then it asked to starts a scandisk and I due. That finishes and it tries to

>>>start but windows doesn't start all I get is the desktop wallpaper with a

>>>photo that is distorted with no icons. I can it F1 and F8 and ctrl/alt/delete

>>>but I do not have any of the original disks and DO NOT and cannot lose any of

>>>the info on the hard drive. The main thing I need is the data and secondary

>>>is getting the computer to work again. Can you please Help!!!

>>

February 5, 2008

Re: Windows 95 Blue Screen of death

Thanks, John I will try it.

"John John" wrote:

> Pull the hard drive out of the Windows 95 computer and put it in the XP

> computer. Your old Windows 95 computer is most probably connected to

> one of the IDE controllers, just connect the drive to the same type of

> controller connection in your XP computer. There are two connections to

> the drive, the power connection and the data cable connection.

>

> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/

> http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

> http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/how-to-install-a-hard-drive-137179.php

>

> John

>

> saveme wrote:

>

> > Ok, sounds good. I have a 2003 xp. How do I hook them up "slave it"?

> >

> > "John John" wrote:

> >

> >>Mount the hard drive (slave it) in another computer and you should be

> >>able to access your files from the working Windows installation in that

> >>other computer.

> >>

> >>John

> >>

> >>saveme wrote:

> >>

> >>>I have an old 1996 HP Pavilion Desktop running Windows 95. A few years ago my

> >>>youngest keep turning it off and on until and it froze up one day. It's been

> >>>that way for 3 year. Now, I need to recover some data off the HD that has

> >>>been safely stored, I hope all these years. This is what happens after I turn

> >>>it on. It starts out normal then it says windows wasn’t turned off right.

> >>>Then it asked to starts a scandisk and I due. That finishes and it tries to

> >>>start but windows doesn't start all I get is the desktop wallpaper with a

> >>>photo that is distorted with no icons. I can it F1 and F8 and ctrl/alt/delete

> >>>but I do not have any of the original disks and DO NOT and cannot lose any of

> >>>the info on the hard drive. The main thing I need is the data and secondary

> >>>is getting the computer to work again. Can you please Help!!!

> >>

>

February 5, 2008

Re: Windows 95 Blue Screen of death

Old computer is formated fat 32 and new computers are Win XP Professional

with NTFS file system that Windows 95 will not reconize, and therefore will

not work.

Thanks for the input. What can I do now!

"saveme" wrote:

> Thanks, John I will try it.

>

> "John John" wrote:

>

> > Pull the hard drive out of the Windows 95 computer and put it in the XP

> > computer. Your old Windows 95 computer is most probably connected to

> > one of the IDE controllers, just connect the drive to the same type of

> > controller connection in your XP computer. There are two connections to

> > the drive, the power connection and the data cable connection.

> >

> > http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/

> > http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

> > http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/how-to-install-a-hard-drive-137179.php

> >

> > John

> >

> > saveme wrote:

> >

> > > Ok, sounds good. I have a 2003 xp. How do I hook them up "slave it"?

> > >

> > > "John John" wrote:

> > >

> > >>Mount the hard drive (slave it) in another computer and you should be

> > >>able to access your files from the working Windows installation in that

> > >>other computer.

> > >>

> > >>John

> > >>

> > >>saveme wrote:

> > >>

> > >>>I have an old 1996 HP Pavilion Desktop running Windows 95. A few years ago my

> > >>>youngest keep turning it off and on until and it froze up one day. It's been

> > >>>that way for 3 year. Now, I need to recover some data off the HD that has

> > >>>been safely stored, I hope all these years. This is what happens after I turn

> > >>>it on. It starts out normal then it says windows wasn’t turned off right.

> > >>>Then it asked to starts a scandisk and I due. That finishes and it tries to

> > >>>start but windows doesn't start all I get is the desktop wallpaper with a

> > >>>photo that is distorted with no icons. I can it F1 and F8 and ctrl/alt/delete

> > >>>but I do not have any of the original disks and DO NOT and cannot lose any of

> > >>>the info on the hard drive. The main thing I need is the data and secondary

> > >>>is getting the computer to work again. Can you please Help!!!

> > >>

> >

February 5, 2008

Re: Windows 95 Blue Screen of death

"saveme" <saveme@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5765951C-1FEE-40E6-A2C4-C7F6BC4ECAFD@microsoft.com...