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[QUOTE="MrLuckey, post: 738052, member: 17313"]
He probably only has OEM recovery CD's and not the actual OS CD's so that option is out unless he can find them somewhere else.

Do you have a network and another computer? If so I can give you a link that will make a bootable DOS disk that will autodetect your NIC and allow you to copy files that way.

Is the drive FAT/FAT32 or NTFS?

I also have a nice DOS utility that will allow you to read an NTFS drive.  The drawback there is that it will truncate all filenames to 8 char.

I ended up doing this recently (also mainly for music) and I also found a nice utility that will read the ID3 tags for all your MP3's and then allow you to select and rename all of them at once according to the format you specify based on ID3 tags.  Not all of our music had complete ID3 tags but it took care of 80% of them in just seconds.

[URL=http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/]DOS NETWORK BOOT DISK LINK[/URL]

[URL=http://www.bootdisk.com/]HANDY PLACE TO GET DOS BOOT DISK - DRIVER SUPPORT[/URL]

[URL=http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/download.htm#build]EVEN BETTER BOOT DISK WITH NETWORK SUPPORT IF YOU HAVE XP/ME[/URL]

[URL=http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/NTFSDOS.shtml]NTFS ACCESS FROM DOS[/URL]

What OS are you running?
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