17 years ago, I had a Pentium II, running Windows 95, I managed to salvage my hard drive and scrap the rest.
I still have my hard drive to this day. I was wondering if it would be possible to plug this hard drive to a modern day computer? I'm not very tech savy.
My hard drive is full of old music and weeb pics, hopefully some porn.
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probably will need a IDE to SATA converter and will only be readable/mountable with linux, not windows
Shitty, I just have a lame Chromebook.
Could I just use an IDE to USB chord?
>IDE to USB
is that a thing?
technically USB to SATA and then SATA to IDE could work
Not OP, but why only readable by linux?
Could also try finding an IDE drive enclosure that connects by USB. I used to have one of those.
Unscrew the hard drive case and put the disks in your disk drive. Is this post a joke, or are you that stupid?
>Could I just use an IDE to USB chord?
Yes you could. But I doubt your chromebook will know how to mount it.
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,
They made external drive boxes for IDE drives just like they do for SATA drives. They probably don't anymore though.
>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.
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.
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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)
Yes, that's a "thing"
>wouldn't mount external VFAT storage
Are you for real right now?
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.
Thanks, I can finally go through all those IDE drives sitting in my closet.
give us the model numbers of the drive
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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.
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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.
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"?
Yeah, which is exactly why chromebooks just come with 16gb SSDs and nothing else
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
>chord
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You have to get your stuff off of the mass storage devices to get it into skynet in the first place.