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Offline 3Deep

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Hard drive acess
« on: January 23, 2018, 01:09:09 PM »
I have an old 98 hard drive I'd like to look in and get some old art out, is it possible to to just use it as a slave drive on an XP,win7 or 10 system since I have all 3.... thanks in advance for the help.

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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2018, 01:12:21 PM »
Shouldn't be an issue. Drive itself might have a select jumper on it to set it to slave.
Make sure you do that otherwise it will try and boot from it.

98 was a long time ago, hope that bad boy still spins!
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2018, 01:21:03 PM »
better yet I would see if I could get an external hard drive dock for cheap online and go that route.  I have 2 or 3 here and it makes it so easy to check out old drives.
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Offline kingscreen

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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2018, 01:54:21 PM »
We bought a dock for about $15 a few years ago. It turns any HD into an external basically.
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2018, 02:06:37 PM »
Thanks, I'll  check that out, just  might be the ticket
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2018, 02:09:33 PM »
I think the jumper still has to be set for a slave, even with the docking box (station, w/e).
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2018, 02:15:10 PM »
I'd imagine most docks would be sata as opposed to ide though.
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2018, 02:19:13 PM »
Probably harder to find a IDE dock/external encloser these days. Not that its impossible but not on the shelf at Best Buy or something I suspect.
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2018, 02:30:08 PM »
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0052VC8M0/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This is what I have - has an IDE adapter.  Several come with adapters but yea IDE is going to die off completely very soon.
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2018, 02:36:34 PM »
They sell IDE/SATA to USB adapters on Amazon for pretty cheap.
https://www.amazon.com/SANOXY-A12940-Drive-Adapter-Converter/dp/B001OORMVQ
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2018, 02:52:59 PM »
You can always find what you want online...if you look hard enough you can get 3.5 floppy drives...i bet you can find the disks still.
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Re: Hard drive acess
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2018, 09:32:46 PM »
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