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Help imaging a IDE drive (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week 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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[โ€“] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Absolutely tangential but,

I first read this thread title as "Imagine having an IDE drive" and I couldn't stop thinking of some instance admin somewhere doing Mad Retro Science raising a lemmy instance on the power of i386 Void Linux and the spite of a pregraduate having to deal with a molex connector.

[โ€“] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

This is great hahah