Recovering Win3.1 Data

[Sean Caron]

I'm surprised you had any trouble with the USB to IDE, usually they work
pretty seamlessly. One thing to check is, whether the drive is explicitly
set to master? A lot of those branded PCs used drives set to Cable Select
and then had a funky IDE cable with one of the pins crossed or something.

Best,

Sean


On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at verizon.net>
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?
>