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?

  • bzLem0n@lemmy.ca
    7·
    2 days ago

    Are either of the USB->IDE adapters ones with a second USB plug for more power? A long time ago I had issues using an adapter that didn’t have a second plug as it wasn’t supplying enough power to properly spin up the drive.

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

      so the first adapter was a little smaller and had extra power for 3.5" drives but not 2.5". It still spun up fine though.

      The next one I got is bigger, and has it’s own little power supply for 2.5" drives as well as an extension for the molex on a 3.5" drive.

      this is the one i use now: https://www.newegg.com/jansicotek-e02-usb-to-ide-sata/p/35G-00MX-00001?Item=9SIAD8FK4X1895

      It still spins up the same. I’m not sure if it’s just a linux issue but I find it weird since I’ve never had a peripheral that linux didn’t at least acknowledge was there. I don’t have a windows pc to really test it on either.