computer wont start

on my taskbar it said USB surge and then my computer crashed and wont start, i cant even get to bios. anyone know what could have happened? im guessing my motherboard friend

First result of google using the search terms "Windows 9x" "access" and "NTFS"

http://www.sofotex.com/Paragon-NTFS-for-Windows-9x-download_L5828.html

"the demo version mounts NTFS partitions in read-only mode" is enough to recover files.

This is of course assuming your hard drive is fine. (Never used the program before, though)