13 Jan
2015
13 Jan
'15
10:56 p.m.
On 01/13/2015 12:32 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
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?
Got another DOS machine? Boot both from floppy; use Laplink or
Interlink to transfer your files.
You could also try a comms package to transfer data via serial cable
(e.g. try Procomm).
If the original machine boots, there are many possibilities. I once did
a linkup with a system with NO serial or parallel ports (and an utterly
incompatible with anything floppy setup) by bit banging an LED on the
console and picking the bits up with a phototransistor connected to some
parallel port pins.
--Chuck