Thank you for all the replies. It appeared that the drive is dead. My friend now told me that when he plugged in using the USB adapter, the drive was spinning like hell but it did not show up in My Computer of his Windows XP machine. He then plugged in the power for the adapter and this...
I double checked before plug in. The drive is only 200MB so I still have a little hope that it is not dead and just that newer motherboards (say post 97) cannot recognize it.
I hope there is somebody that dealt with drives this old that can give me some direction, like downloading ATA driver...
This is my friend machine. The laptop rightmost light would blink a few time and then was solid when we plug in the power cord. If we press the power button the leftmost light would be on for a second like the machine will be booting and then all the lights will be out. Nothing would happen. I...
I had a 1995 Toshiba laptop that recently died. I remove the hard drive from the laptop to try to recover the data. The drive is the Seagate ST9235A. From the Seagate manual the interface is ATA.
I bought a IDE to USB adapter and connected to my Sony laptop and to several other computers but...
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