Drivespace compressed HD no boot reg/config error
The win95 computer would not boot because of registry/configuration error.
We then put the hard drive into a win98se computer as a second hard drive in an attempt to look inside the win95 hard drive for user files.
When we turned the computer on, unfortunately, it saw that win95 Hard drive as the master and attempted to boot into windows95.
The HD has jumpers on the bottom that we do not know how to set.
The registry/config error displayed and scandisc proceeded to automatically check the drive.
Scandisk then reported it needs a floppy inserted so it can back up files while repairing the Hard drive.
We inserted the floppy and then scandisk proceeded for a few minutes but then the computer freezes up for some reason.
There is a file on the floppy called SCANUNDO.DAT, it is 0 bytes.
I removed the hard drive, and the floppy.
I do not feel safe doing anything more as I have not the expertise.
This disk appears compressed from DriveSpace 3 and it uses FAT and is 124mb capacity with 122mb used as reported by winXP and is a Maxtor 7131AT.
What we would like to happen is to copy this hard drive somehow for safety maybe, so we get a second chance in case of failure.
Would want to fix the registry/config error so it can boot up into windows95 back on the old machine.
Would like to somehow remove drivespace 3 compression if possible. There is an extra hard drive here to use if it helps.
Thank you much if someone can help