Sitting here with a 19 year old hard drive

[AstroTurf]

Try these guys. They specialise in new PC hardware MB's with interface and drivers to old ISA slots . I recovered and gave new life to a old "junk" industrial piece of test equipment with one of their MB's which required ISA slots for propriety hardware and drivers.

http://www.industrialpc.co.za/about-us

I may still have old ISA harddrive Interface card in my scrap if required. Will check let me know.

lol, not needed.

I have a spare old 486-dx4 here at work.

 

[Seriously]

lol, not needed.

I have a spare old 486-dx4 here at work.

So what do you actually need to get going then? Can you read the drive but you want to image the complete drive on another? Then I would suggest old Norton Ghost 2003 using a bootable cd or bootable BartPE or Ultimate boot with the cloning software incorporated..

 

[AstroTurf]

So what do you actually need to get going then? Can you read the drive but you want to image the complete drive on another?

I was wondering what to use to clone the drive.

 

[Seriously]

I was wondering what to use to clone the drive.

Google MiniPE2-XT boot iso. I think it has the ghost utility version incorporated.

Norton ghost 2003 is what you are after. The best I used at that time. Cloned drive images complete even Siemens software licences.

Lots of info:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/neurophysics/Manuals/Norton/Ghost 2003 User Guide.pdf
http://ulderi.com/my-itc-blog/2009/09/create-a-symantec-ghost-image-for-hard-drive-cloning/
http://reboot.pro/topic/11260-norton-ghost-2003-on-usb-thumb-drive/
http://www.themoreiknow.info/R3000Z_web/GhostOnCompaq.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdmq_MgpKc
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3416361

 

[MeroD]

Or give this a try: http://www.ics-iq.com/Hard-Drive-Duplicators-s/4.htm

 

[sajunky]

Machine is networked (using a windows 98vm to save files to and from).
And yes, tried that.

OK, then direct imaging is not a big issue either. It can be done over network.

Other thought is to try intermediate conversion. By example open old files in Autocad 10 or 11 and save in new DWG native format.
Then you can try DXF. Hope it helps.

 

[supersunbird]

Have a '97 1.2GB IDE Seagate here somewhere.

So that's 17 years...



Came from a Packard Bell PC, 133Mhz Pentuim, 16Mb RAM, 4MB onboard graphcis card, 4x CD-ROM. Still have the PC.