Pre-ATA IDE Hard Drive (Connor 0P30104H)

[MG]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to update someone's home office, replace their functioning-but-frustrating 1991ish 386 PC.
I'm having trouble transferring over all the existing data.

I picked up a a hard drive enclosure, the 40pin adapter connects, but obviously I need to supply windows (XP) with a driver for something this old.  Does anyone have a pointer to drivers for 1991-or-so Connor hard drives?

Second best: Does anyone have a supplier for old 3.5" floppies?  I haven't been able to find any that will work in the 386's floppy drive.
(Would a relatively modern 3.5" drive even be able to read something that the 15 year old machine formatted?)

Third best: Does anyone know of a reliable data recovery service that will tackle the job of transferring the files from this old but perfectly functional hard drive e.g. onto a CD?

Many thanks in advance

[Raptor]

Third best: Does anyone know of a reliable data recovery service that will tackle the job of transferring the files from this old but perfectly functional hard drive e.g. onto a CD?  

Nero?

I picked up a a hard drive enclosure, the 40pin adapter connects, but obviously I need to supply windows (XP) with a driver for something this old.  Does anyone have a pointer to drivers for 1991-or-so Connor hard drives?

Does it not have an IDE driver interface?

If Windows doesn't pick it up, it might be because you need to manually configure it in your BIOS or perhaps because you didn't set the jumpers right.

[MG]

Does it not have an IDE driver interface?

If Windows doesn't pick it up, it might be because you need to manually configure it in your BIOS or perhaps because you didn't set the jumpers right.

I'm not that technically literate, let me know if this is non-responsive:

Everything works well enough for me to pull up the device using the Device Manager.
(I *think* that answers your concern about Windows picking it up?)
Under the General tab, it even says that the device is working properly.
Presumably this means the enclosure, not the enclosed drive, because when I look at the Volumes tab it say the disk type is unknown and the status is unreadable.

There is apparently no drive letter assigned, and definitely no "F:" icon available under "My Computer." I assume that some driver is required to let WinXP know how to read the hard disk?

Thank You

[Raptor]

What OS was previously installed on the HDD? And the file system used?

Does the enclosure show as a HDD even when there is no HDD connected? I haven't had any experience with that.

[MG]

The previous OS was Windows 3.1, how do I find the file system used?
(I vaguely recall that it was "FAT"-something or other.)

I haven't tried attaching the enclosure without any drive in it.
Maybe I'll do that later, if I can't get the data transferred I'll have to reattach the drive to the old computer in a day or two anyway and go back to using that.

Thanks.

[Raptor]

I am not entirely sure, but I think Windows XP is able to read the Windows 3.1 file system.. FAT-16 most likely?

Can you give me the full name of the HDD so I can do some research on it?

[street1 (RIP)]

Are you sure the model isn't Connor CP30104H?

It should hook up with a 40 pin IDE Cable.


http://www.amitron-int.com/drives.htm

[2k_dummy]

Put the drive back in the old machine and boot it. At the DOS prompt, type ver and see what version of DOS it has on it. If it boots automatically into win 3.1, edit the autoexec.bat to rem the line that loads windows or exit windows back to the DOS prompt.

[GX1_Man]

I don't think Win95 ran on less than a 486. Later versions surely wouldn't.

If that is an MFM or RLL drive you amy be further SOL.

A floppy drive is the least of your issues.