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?
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.
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.