Moving old hard drives to new PCs

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Phil Jacobs

I've moved a couple of old Win95 / Win98 hard drives from
old PCs to my current WinXP Pro box. I've set them as
slaves and hoped I would be able to read from them.
However WinXP automatically tries to 'repair' them and in
the process wrecks the FAT.

I have been able to recover files using a data recovery
tool but some of them are obviously fragmented around the
disk and I only get bits of them back, along with garbage.

(1) What has WinXP actually done to my disk?
(2) How do I go about recovering my files?
(3) If I end up giving it to a data recovery company, how
do they go about recovering such files?

Any help appreciated

Phil
 
Hello

Well a rovery company will tell that they use expensive softare
to do it, and that's pretty much they will tell you

Al
 
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