OK something that old surely has a serial port on it? If so, look in to “sneakernet” (it’s a technique, not a product) to connect to another computer. I’ve even done networking over a serial port with linux, but there also used to be software just for copying files. That wouldn’t give you a drive image but it would at least back up the software.
That hard drive is probably multiple gigabytes, it would take days to weeks to transfer that over a serial port. If the computer has a PC card slot, I would look for an ethernet adapter that would work with it.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Plug the destination drive into the new USB adapter you got?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The laptop is too old to read a usb device like that without drivers
Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Boot a clonezilla or Linux CD, don’t use your windows install.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Could also try just a flash drive, I imagine whatever drive in there is pretty small. What ide adapter do you have anyways
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Maybe clonezilla would recognize it. Windows isn’t recognizing usb devices at the moment.
I put the adapter in the main post.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
OK something that old surely has a serial port on it? If so, look in to “sneakernet” (it’s a technique, not a product) to connect to another computer. I’ve even done networking over a serial port with linux, but there also used to be software just for copying files. That wouldn’t give you a drive image but it would at least back up the software.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
That hard drive is probably multiple gigabytes, it would take days to weeks to transfer that over a serial port. If the computer has a PC card slot, I would look for an ethernet adapter that would work with it.