Comment on Help imaging a IDE drive

• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The laptop is too old to read a usb device like that without drivers

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Boot a clonezilla or Linux CD, don’t use your windows install.

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  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Could also try just a flash drive, I imagine whatever drive in there is pretty small. What ide adapter do you have anyways

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe clonezilla would recognize it. Windows isn’t recognizing usb devices at the moment.

      I put the adapter in the main post.

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  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Heh I managed to jump directly from best-case to worst-case, but hey, that still leaves everything in between as options. :-)

        Yeah, speed is everything and there are pcmcia ethernet cards for $10 or less on ebay if OP has that option.

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