Surely someone you know has a W98 machine because you are going to need one.
You don't even have to mount the drive--attach it to CDRom ribbon cable,
make sure the jumper pins are right and sit the drive on its end while you
extract the files.

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Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"NormW" - wrote in message
...
My daughters PC, which was running windows 98, recently died. The machine
had
one small hard drive which was compressed using drivespace 3. I need to
recover her college research papers which are stored on this hard drive. I
can take the drive out of her machine and temporarily install it on my
Windows XP machine and see the compressed volume file but I cannot access
any
of the individual files compressed within it. Does anyone know of a
method
to recover the individual files without my having access to a windows 98
machine