Getting data from old hard disks

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by shedlord, May 20, 2006.

  1. shedlord

    shedlord Private E-2

    I've been asked to retrieve the data from a very old 'server' running Netware 4.11. This 'server' is made up of 4 IDE disks and serves to a group of old applemacs via an appletalk module in Netware.

    Anyway, I don't have much experience of this kind of thing but thought I could pop each disk in turn into an external hard drive box I have handy, plug this into a PC and see/copy files across.

    The results were as follows:

    Two of these drives don't seem to get picked up at all when I do this (ie. no device is detected at the other end of the USB cable). Tried switching between master/slave jumper settings but no change.

    One is seen but doesn't get allocated a drive letter. I followed some instructions for manually allocating a drive letter but I wasn't allowed to open the resulting drive.

    One drive mounts but only seems to have a load of Netware system files on - none of the databases and files shared seem to be on there (or are they hidden somehow?)

    I'm sure there's something wrong with my method, possibly the using of a USB external drive case?

    Any suggestions how I can do this? Thanks
     
  2. prankz

    prankz Specialist

    how about just getting the HDDs via IDE cable instead....
     

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