Accessing an accient hard drive

probably will need a IDE to SATA converter and will only be readable/mountable with linux, not windows

>>62040305

Shitty, I just have a lame Chromebook.

Could I just use an IDE to USB chord?

>>62040357
>IDE to USB
is that a thing?
technically USB to SATA and then SATA to IDE could work

>>62040305
Not OP, but why only readable by linux?

>>62040305
Could also try finding an IDE drive enclosure that connects by USB. I used to have one of those.

>>62040357
Unscrew the hard drive case and put the disks in your disk drive. Is this post a joke, or are you that stupid?

>>62040357
>Could I just use an IDE to USB chord?
Yes you could. But I doubt your chromebook will know how to mount it.

>>62040305
Actually if anything Windows will have the better backwards compatibility. The entire REASON it's such a giant bloated clusterfuck is specifically backwards compatibility and legacy support of fucking everything,

>>62040534
They made external drive boxes for IDE drives just like they do for SATA drives. They probably don't anymore though.

>>62040613
>But I doubt your chromebook will know how to mount it.
This, it's a very limited OS that's really only focused on running Chrome and a few other mobile apps. You need a real computer to do this. Preferably a desktop - PCI IDE cards can still be had for like $10, and will work in anything that still has a PCI slot to plug them in to.

>>62040556
because he's retarded, as indicated by suggesting the use of two adapters to do the job of one.

just get a USB2.0 hard drive enclosure that accepts IDE drives, they are not hard to find at all and work fine with Windows.

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-RX35-AT-IU-BLK-Aluminum-Enclosure/dp/B004BU6ITW

>>62040305
>>62040556
>>62040632
If its Win95 that drive is probably gonna be FAT16. Any version of Windows or any Linux will read it. If he used one of the weird compression utilities that were popular in the early 90s then no recent Windows will read it, and Linux will be a crapshoot but stands a good chance. (especially since he just needs to read it, not write it or create a filesystem matching it)

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>>62040534
Yes, that's a "thing"

>>62040613
>wouldn't mount external VFAT storage
Are you for real right now?

>>62040645
also this should work with a chromebook as well, they generally report as generic usb mass storage devices once assembled and connected. If it's Win9x, the filesystem should be FAT32 and readable by pretty much any modern PC.

>>62040645
Thanks, I can finally go through all those IDE drives sitting in my closet.

>>62040253
give us the model numbers of the drive

>>62040613
>>62040305
image related

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>>62040719
forgot image

>>62040670
I've never used Chrome OS or a Chromebook but I always assumed that it was just a chrome machine with an extremely minimal set of features. I should have looked it up beforehand because it seems that it is in fact possible.


>>62040719
Nice image :^)

>>62040736
IIRC there's a Linux kernel under there, so I imagine a lot of things are pretty possible. I don't think normies would stand for not being able to plug in mass storage.

>>62040802
wasn't a main plank of Google's whole philosophy with this device "lol wtf do you need local storage for, you have our cloud shit"?

>>62040826
Yeah, which is exactly why chromebooks just come with 16gb SSDs and nothing else

>>62040253
kek, I did it the other way around
still have some old software running on a Win95 machine
shit was so slow, so I bought an ssd and put it in.
At first I thought I was crazy when I ordered it drunk
but it turned out all fine and that shit machine runs so smooth now

>>62040357
>chord
lrn2english

>>62040826
You have to get your stuff off of the mass storage devices to get it into skynet in the first place.