The motherboard on my last machine died in 2005, so I replaced the entire machine (it was time anyway — moved from 6gb storage to 160gb). I kept the old tower with the two 3gb drives in it. Now I find a need to retrieve some folders off the old drives. I think they’re 3.5″ IDE or SATA drives — they’re enclosed in an 8″ long and 3″ wide steel case with ribbon cable extruding.
Does anyone know if the USB Universal adapters like those sold by Newer Technologies and others would allow me to remove the old drives from the old tower, attach the ribbon cable to the new whatsit, attach the whatsit to the newish machine via USB port and copy the folders I want? I’d like to do this with minimal hassle, if possible. The adapters include power supplies to get the old drives running, which seems to be a plus.
Has anyone tried this?
Looks like it should work.
I have one that’s similar, and it works great. One of the most useful computer gadgets I ever bought.
I think they’re 3.5″ IDE or SATA drives — they’re enclosed in an 8″ long and 3″ wide steel case with ribbon cable extruding.
Given their size, your 3 GB drives are almost certainly ATA IDE drives (vs SATA). You’ll have to get them out of the case to use the adapter, or at least get enough access to the interior of the metal case to remove the original cables from the back of the individual drives.
i don’t have any helpful tips to offer, but i wanted to mention that i love your favicon. very cool.
kd, I’d have thought you of all people would have used one of these. 😉
You’re admiring my friend Ryan’s work when you admire the favicon. I didn’t have a decent image editing program and he offered to make one with the image I selected.