[Cialug] usb to ide

[Dan Hockey]

I was volunteered to help a friend figure out what happened to his 386/33
win3.1 no less. The cmos seems to have died, it doesn't beep or display
anything.

Now that I got him to think about a new computer, the data on his old hdd
became the next problem and since he didn't backup anything pulling the
drive is the only option I could think of. He's in the process of writing a
book and I think its part of the reason of not letting the drive go home
with me. I think someone  here mentioned  a usb to ide before but I can't
remember. 

Is there any particular brand of adapter that I should look for? Do they all
work the same?

I thought of trying linux (mandriva) first and mounting the drive in
readonly and burn everything to cd. I don't want XP trying to convert his
drive to fat32.

If I get stuck with having to do this I'm going to do it as cheap as I can,
hence the adapter. 

-dh

 

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Tim Wilson
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:31 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] usb to ide

 

I have something similar to this.  Mine only does IDE, but does both 3.5"
and 2.5" drives. I've used it on Windows and I think Linux (I think it was a
Live CD).  I love being able to hook up a laptop drive to it. 

On 7/14/07, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at mchsi.com> wrote:

Has anyone here used one of these with windows or linux?
http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adapt.php
-dh

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Tim 

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