I kept a series of otherwise-abandoned Win95 boxes on my desk at home until 2006, so believe me I'm not over-reacting when I say, put a bullet in its brain and call the glue factory. He can get a used Win2000 box somewhere for a hundred bucks, I bet. Hell, it's what I did when my last Win95 keeled over and died.

Good luck on getting any data off the hard drive.