I have not been following the computer saga closely, but I have a thought that might help. If the new XP machine has enough memory and disk space (as seems likely), and you have the media to install Win98 onto a computer, you might play with one of the free virtual machine programs to build a virtual Win98 machine in a file on your XP box, then run MSBACKUP in the virtual machine to make a copy of the Win98 machine that you can run under XP. Then you can use a virtual network tool to copy whatever you need from the Win98 machine onto the XP and be done. In fact, you could make a backup of the virtual machine file so that in case you remember a year later that you need something, you could do the same trick from backup media.
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Date: 2007-04-23 03:03 am (UTC)Since this would be a one-time thing, you would not need the fanciest, fastest stuff - I think that VMWare's offerings would be overkill. I would go to http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ to download the distribution, and http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ to read more.