[CentOS] [OT] How to recover data from an IDE drive

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:19:23AM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> 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.

I got one of those from, er, either amazon or newegg a few years ago,
and while it works for a PATA drive, no matter what I did it wouldn't
work with an optical drive. despite the customer support people insisting
it does work. following their configuration settings didn't help.

So, YMMV.

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Digimer" <lists at alteeve.ca>
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> 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.
> 
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