How to get my files off my old IDE drive?

[matt_mu]

so my family has an old dell dimension xps t500 running windows 98. I want to know how i can get the files off of it. It wont recognize a usb storage device and it olny has dial-up internet... does anyone know how i can accomplish this. could i plug it into my gigabyte ma69g-s3h board and copy the files from there?

thanks

 

[Fetal]

yes take the ide drive off, and if your PC has ide ports, connect it and copy the files. otherwise get ide to usb converter (its like external enclosure) plug your hdd in and copy the files.

 

[jefe323]

looks like your board has an IDE slot, so you should be able to plug in your drive and copy the files onto another drive

 

[matt_mu]

ok but would i boot into my normal sata drive on my computer? if so would the ide drive show up in 'my computer' where it shows "local disc (C" or something like that?

thanks

 

[matt_mu]

it turned my c drive symbol into a smiley face ^

 

[Fetal]

yes.

C is your disk with windows. it will show as D if you have nothing else installed like optical drive etc etc.

 

[matt_mu]

yes.

C is your disk with windows. it will show as D if you have nothing else installed like optical drive etc etc.

thanks very much I was able to copy all of my files to my c drive

 

[matt_mu]

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