Recovering Win3.1 Data

[Dave G4UGM]

Have you tried Disk2VHD from here:-

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

you may then be able to boot the disk in Virtual PC, VMWare or DOSBOX. You can also mount the VHD as a drive in Windows/7 from Disk Manager.

Dave
G4UGM

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Taylor
Sent: 13 January 2015 20:33
To: Discussion at classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Recovering Win3.1 Data

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?