Comment on Help imaging a IDE drive

• 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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      • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It does have pcm slot and it does work. Ethernet may be my best option.

        The other issue is the cd drive spins up but does not seem to be able to be reading either.

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