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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 1491520" data-attributes="member: 4400">A dead battery on the 98 machine shouldn't stop it from working if you've got it plugged into the wall, unless there's also a problem with the power adapter.  I can tell you from firsthand experience that they sometimes get shorts in them and will only work when the cable is bent a certain way.It does sound like the 95 computer has a bad hard disk.  If you can make a bootable floppy disk you might be able to salvage it with fdisk or a simple reformat.  If not, replacement laptop hard drives are available, but I'm not sure about getting one with a low enough capacity to be compatible with a computer that would've had Windows 95 on it.If all you need out of the 98 machine is recovery of the data from the hard disk, there are adapters available which will allow you plug a laptop hard drive into a desktop computer where you could copy the files over.Off the top of my head I don't have any advice about the CMOS Checksum error.  Do you also find that you have to reset the the clocks on both computers every time you get that error?  I ask because (on desktops anyway) the battery that saves the CMOS settings is the same battery that powers the clock.Assuming they're exactly the same computer in all specs except for one being 95 and the other 98, you probably would be able to put the 98 hard disk into the 95 machine and have it work.  However before you do that I'm going to suggest something simpler.  First try the power adapter from the 95 machine on the 98 one.  If that works, try the battery from the 95 machine on the 98 one.If it gets to the point of swapping hard drives I'd take a look at websites which sell laptop hard drives.  Several I've seen in the past (sorry no links handy, but I might could dig some up) included model-specific instructions for installing hard drives in laptops.  This is important because laptops aren't as standardized in terms of interal construction as desktops are, and if you don't know what you're doing in a specific model it's easy to take out the wrong screw and have the whole machine come apart on you.</blockquote>

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