Well I have a very important question requiring a very urgent answer if possible. I no longer have access to my computer (Cant boot WINXP). I am taking the computer to my grandfathers house to be fixed 2 days from now, and I need some type of cable to hook my hard drive to a WIN98 machine (Via USB maybe?) so I can backup some files. Please tell me they do make a cable designed for this. Not to sure of what kind of hard drive it is. I know it uses the standard IDE cable. Please Help.

You really haven't given any indication about what's wrong or what you've tried to correct it. The "normal" way of tranferring data when you have a problem like that is to open the PC case & take out the HDD...then install that HDD inside another PC case as a slave, then retrieve your data. Hopefully your granddad has a PC with XP on it because if it's Win98 or ME, it probably won't recognize the XP file system (if it was formatted as NTFS)

I agree with Jam. You can't use USB if you can boot Windows. The serial/parallel cable options are VERY slow. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

FYI 1. NTFS for 98: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsWindows98.html 2. USB Use USB2.0 "direct connection cable" to connect 2 PCs. http://www.microbarn.com/USBCables_CBU-BRIDGE--17-37-100164.html?source=gadwords http://compnetworking.about.com/od/homenetworking/a/connecttwocomp.htm Luke Chi