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Help imaging a IDE drive (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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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?

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have found that the new adapters you can buy are very unreliable. I ended up buying a 20 y/o USB 2.0 dock on eBay and that seems to work with every drive I throw at it.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Thats a bummer. They sure took a nose dive in quality