SOCIAL: Calling all geeks!

[Bob Seymour]

Hey Folks -
  I haven't had much luck trying to help Grace's neighbor salvage some 
files from her corrupted hard drive and I'm looking for some advice.   
It has some semblance of Windows 98 on it but even with the aid of a 
boot disk, we can't get things running.  It gets into a horribly long 
and tedious scandisk routine that I have to quit out of due to 
impatience.  When I quit out of the routine, I can see a dos directory 
of the files but cannot do anything with the files because, well, it's 
dos.  For all I know, the files are screwed up, but it seemed so 
tantalizingly close.  I next tried to add the drive to an existing 
Windows 98 machine as a slave drive to see what would happen but 
unfortunately my old Windows 98 machine seems to not be working, even 
with a reinstall of the software.  My questions are as follows:
  - Does anyone have any suggestions as to what else could be done?
  - Does anyone have a Windows 98 machine that we can mount the hard 
drive on?
  - Can anyone recommend a professional hard drive salvager?

Thanks