18 Jan
2015
18 Jan
'15
11:41 p.m.
On 1/13/2015 9:52 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 01/13/2015 02:32 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
You guys move a lot faster than I do....
Some of the files I copied to floppy were MS Word files from that era.
My win7 machine wouldn't open them under Office 2007 because the
antivirus (Symmantec) had set a registry bit. Hmm. ..
However, office on the Linux system would open them (Debian).
But, Debian didn't understand the disk. Disk Utility reported it as a
Conner disk but said the size was 2.2 TB.
I thought Debian would be the path of least resistance, back to the
drawing board.
In the mid-90's I had a Packard Bell computer
that ran Windows for
workgroups 3.11. The computer is long gone, but I saved the disk. It
is a 420 MB Conner. I recently tried to recover the data by
attaching it to one of those IDE/SATA to USB devices and read it
under Windows7, didn't work.
I am able to copy files to floppy, but the stuff I want to save won't
fit on a floppy.
I put the disk in an old PC and it will boot to DOS, it tries to
start WIN3.1 but exits because of some missing sound card hardware.
What is the path of least resistance here? Is linux any help?
Yes, Linux will be able to easily read the disk. Once you have a
Linux system up,
plug in the drive. it MIGHT automatically mount the drive as
/media/<something> or you might have to manually mount it
if it doesn't automatically detect the file system type.
the commands would be something like :
If you don't know what partition is the user data one, do this:
sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
<supply user's password>
p
lists out the partitions on the drive, and the file system types
q <get out of fdisk before you hit the wrong key and cause data loss>
/dev/sdb would be the second drive on the system, which could be the CD,
if so, the added drive might be /dev/sdc
ls /dev/sd* will show the various drives as /dev/sd<letter>
and available partitions as /dev/sd<letter><number>
mkdir /mnt/disk
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sd<letter><number> /mnt/disk
now, the disk should be mounted under /mnt/disk, and you can
list it, copy files, etc.
Jon