While IDE-to-USB is probably the easier option to use, I got an IDE-to-Sata adapter on eBay for almost nothing (of course, you have to wait for it to arrive directly from China). If you go this route, the thing I learned from the experience was to set the IDE drive to master (there won't be a slave unless you get a one-to-two converter - I didn't see one of the latter). Also, unless the converter goes both ways, pay attention to which is the controller side and which is the drive side.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Digimer" lists@alteeve.ca To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 8:10:05 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] How to recover data from an IDE drive
On 26/10/16 09:01 PM, TE Dukes wrote:
Hello,
As some may recall, I suffered a hardware failure of a 10 yr old IBM Netvista back in January. I was backing up my personal data, 'My Documents', to my CentOS server but I apparently didn't get my emails.
It was a main board failure and I believe the data is still good on the hard drive. Only problem, its an IDE drive and my server and new PC have SATA drives.
Is it possible to install the old drive as a secondary drive into a newer PC with SATA drives? If so, how do I do this? I need to access the emails.
This was a Windows XP machine using Outlook as the mail client.
TIA!!!!!!
There are plenty of IDE to USB adapters out there, so one of those is probably best. Here's what amazon has when searching for 'ide to usb':
https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-ke...
Most should work fine in Linux, but if you narrow down a specific make/model, a quick google search should confirm linux support.