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 at alteeve.ca> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at 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-keywords=ide+to+usb Most should work fine in Linux, but if you narrow down a specific make/model, a quick google search should confirm linux support. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos