Lost data? it was working fine under wind 98 and xp ,but when i was transfering files in win 98 the computer crash we reinstal the windows 98 with the usb plug and after that its not working! both sistems (win 98 and xp ) ask the same cuestion " drive not formatd will you like to format now" and i know that if i said yes i will looss the data how can i retrive mi info from this usb?

If you re installed, the hard drice will have been wiped clean, (as windows does) meaning they are no longer there.
If however they are stored as a backup elsewhere, Win 10 should recognise the file suffux and download the programme to open them.

You might be lucky, but I don't think it will work. If the hardware is different XP will complain or simply not work.
Why do you want to transfer XP on to a machine that is running Windows 7. Win 7 is much more stable and is still supported.

Before you use the Recovery CD you need to backup your data because to restoring your laptop will wipe your data off the hard disk.
To backup your data when you cannot boot up your laptop, remove the hard drive and connect it to an USB hard drive adapter. Connect this hard drive/USB adapter into the USB port of a working computer. The computer will see it as an external storage device, you can then open the folders and backup your data.
You can then fit the hard drive back into the Dell laptop and boot up with the Dell recovery CD to reinstall Windows etc.

as win xp is no longer supported by microsoft it is very possible that the updates are not being recognized by win xp and you now have confloicts in the os.
if it works fine in win 7 , then it is time to remove win xp and upgrade to win 7

you can recover crashed hard drive with some data recovery program, recommended asoftech data recovery
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asoftech-Data-Recovery/290956907592436?sk=info

Hi

Transferring file from your computer to external hard drive is very easy, just copy and paste all the files you needed to the external hard drive.

Reinstalling Windows XP would be quite difficult. Make sure you have Windows XP installer CD and all the utility hardware driver of your computer e.g. Chipset driver, Sound driver, VGA driver, WAN driver, LAN driver and others. If you do not have the Utility drivers, just download the complete set of utility driver in the internet. Most of them are free to downloads.

Here is the procedure with video on how to reinstall the Windows XP operating system (step by step) http://www.fixya.com/support/r7410371-reinstall_windows_xp_or_installing_clean

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substitute the NTLDR file in the right place. if you have access to another computer, copy the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM which is available from the recovery CD which comes with computer. If you do not have the recovery CD, they were available from another computer using the same Operating System (Windows XP in your case). The location was C:\i386\ntldr C:\i386\ntdetect.com then use a bootable disc to restart the computer (the Win XP bootable CD may not work, a Win 98 bootable CD will work). After entering MS DOS mode, copy these 2 files to the C drive in the proper location. After restart, then pressing F10 on start up (used for system recovery on my computer), start the repair of Windows via system recovery (which was not possible earlier). This reinstalled all Windows drivers and system files, while preserving all data on my computer.

NTLDR is short for NT loader – a program loaded from the hard drive boot sector that displays the Microsoft Windows NT startup menu and helps Microsoft Windows NT load. So when it goes missing for some reason, your windows cannot load.
Cause:
1. Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
2. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
3. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
4. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
5. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
6. New hard disk drive being added.
7. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
8. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
9. Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable.
if there is attached drive ,remove the drive first before restarting the system if not then if you had access to another computer, copy the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM which is available from the recovery CD which comes with computer. If you do not have the recovery CD, its available on microsoft site or is available from another computer using the same Operating System (Windows XP ). The location may be C:\i386\ntldr C:\i386\ntdetect.com use a bootable disc to restart the computer (the Win XP bootable CD or Win 98 bootable CD worked). After entering MS DOS mode, copy these 2 files to the C drive in the proper location. After restart, then pressing F10 on start up (used for system recovery ), then start the repair of Windows via system recovery This will reinstalled all Windows drivers and system files, while preserving all data on your computer.

Run command prompt as administrator. Enter chkdsk /f as command

Suspect reinstallation of the Peachtree program would necessarily follow that. What points to the G/L file was corrupted by the power failure. If you can uninstall Peachtree without loss of the data, the forementioned may fix the problem. sAfter all, if the error message is that the Programs for GL are not found, reinstallation should replace those programs. I think Peachtree 11 was an update which worked on XP. Note that one person tried to update to XP Pro from Home XP and it took Peachtree 11 hours to make the transition. Gives you a bit of a pause. Set up backups if you use Peachtree. Hope these ideas help. There was a Peachtree for Dummies book written in that period, FYI,