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OT: Old AMD64 Athlon Box, Hard Drive?

Disposing of an old/ancient AMD64 Athlon Box whose motherboard died...

Pulled hard-drive:

Western Digital WD1600 WD Caviar Enhanced IDE Hard Drive Drive Parameters: LBA 312581808 160GB

Does an adapter exist to read this drive via USB? ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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Plenty of them. Most that I have seen, have a USB connection on one side, and both IDE and SATA connections on the other.

Some of these can support CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/-RW drives as well (these drives typically speak ATAPI, which is effectively a SCSI command set transported over IDE or SATA). Others do not.

Under $10 on eBay.

Reply to
Dave Platt

You just need a USB to IDE adaptor, unless it's a vintage IDE. Like...

I have an older Cables-2-Go adaptor at work and it always works as intended. It has the 40 and 44 pin IDE connector for 2.5" and 3.5" drives as well as a SATA port. 2.5" drives don't have a Power Pigtail.

There are USB 3.0 versions out there, but I never tried one out.

Easy to use and the drive should just show up, unless it's toast.

Cheers

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Martin Riddle

a few bucks from china on amazon or fleabay.

NT

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tabbypurr

Done! From whence all good things are provided... Amazon >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142    Skype: skypeanalog |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 

     Thinking outside the box... producing elegant solutions.
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Jim Thompson

$10 delivered

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David Eather

They cost about $12 and include a PSU. Usually I leave the PSU at home and just use power from the old PC.

Reply to
Tom Del Rosso

Yes; an USB adapter that handles IDE as well as SCSI: "Prudent Way" is the key name. See

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Robert Baer

Do you want to do a one time read and save data to a USB stick or want to put it in a box so that you can mount it anytime in the future ? (assuming the heads don't stick to the platter through lack of usage)

Best buy is probably a IDE/SATA capable USB drive interface and a basic PSU if you just want to be able to power it up and mirror it. I have one that permits hardware write protect of the external mounted drive - very useful when you don't trust the machine it is being read on.

Something like this (I have an earlier model same maker)

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The OS and applications are unusable without the original PC so the total amount you will need to backup probably

Reply to
Martin Brown

And, there are legacy boxes that will crap out at the 127GB limit! I.e., examine the capacity of the drive before installing it (verify it to be "160GB"); then, examine it inside the OS to verify it can be seen in its entirety.

Hint: if OS claims the drive isn't formatted, its probably not seeing the entire drive (assuming it was, in fact, formatted)

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Don Y

Success! Drive came up perfectly using...

Completely readable, no grinding noises, etc... so quiet I can barely tell that it's running... so the motherboard flame-out did no damage. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142    Skype: skypeanalog |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 

     Thinking outside the box... producing elegant solutions. 

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Jim Thompson

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