Need to recover data from an older disk drive?

I had two hard drives (IDE interface) which I needed to recover. One was from a recently deceased desk-top work station, and the other was from a WD external drive (which I had thought was crashed). The external drive had thousands of fotos.

Anyway, I found this little $24 gem (IDE to USB interface) from www.newegg.com, and was easily able to recover everything from both drives, although each took about an hour, running Vista.



The biggest technical challenges are:

Being able to physically remove the drive, and connect the obvious interface cables
Capability of copying a directory from one location to another.

By sloopskipper on Jun 14, 2009, 06:46 in Off Topic.

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