I am imaging this drive just in case it dies (from a 2000 gateway laptop I’m setting up for old games). it’s a 2.5" IDE Toshiba drive. It works just fine, has Win 2k on it. I have tried 2 different IDE to usb adapters, and both have powered up the drive, but neither have shown anything in fdisk (on linux). No weird noises or bad clicking from the drive.

I do notice that the drive does not have any jumpers on it - so I didn’t think I’d need to put a jumper on master (if it has that, i need to look closer) but I figured it would already have the jumper on master if it was the only drive in the laptop right?

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      Oo yep that makes sense then.

      Darn. I really hoped this would work. Im not sure how else to backup this drive, I mainly want to do that to keep the drivers intact

      • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Maybe try and boot something like clonezilla to the laptop you took it from instead of messing with shoddy adapters?

              • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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                2 days ago

                Boot a clonezilla or Linux CD, don’t use your windows install. It should have proper USB support as long as you actually have USB ports.

              • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

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

              • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
                21·
                2 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.

                • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                  2 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.

                  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
                    2·
                    2 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.