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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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[–] 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