I want to resurrect an old amiga 600 hard drive

[mark76g]

Hi,

I used to have an Amiga 600 back in 1993. It broke down one day so I pulled out the hard drive and stored it. The rest of the 600 was eventually thrown out.

I just found the drive. Its in good condition. There are no signs of any rust or damage.

The are are a lot pictures and other files on there that have sentimental value.

So I was thinking about resurrecting the drive saving the files to my PC.

What do you think the best method would be ?

I could buy an old A600 and plug it straight in. Or it might also work with a A1200 or an A4000 if I couldn't find a 600 im not sure.

Or mabey I can plug into some kind of cradle that then plugs into the pc and run an emulator ?

If the drive is working I then need a way of copying the files to my PC.

Any ideas.

Thanks,

Mark.

[mark76g]

Given that I cant be %100 sure the drive actually works and the data is not corrupt it sounds like I should buy an old A600 or A1200 an plug it in.

If it doesn't boot then I know for sure its gone. I can just image buying cradles and adaptors and messing around and then never really being sure if the drive is ok or ive bought the wrong parts or im typing the wrong thing.

So if I get hold of an A600/1200 and it actually boots whats my next step. Whats the easiest way to get the data off it. The files are mostly text and pictures which I could use on any modern operating system.
PCs no longer have disk drives and Amgias pre date USB ports. Maybe theres something I can do with the PMCIA port ?

It would be kind of fun to get an image of the whole drive as one file and then run it on UAE I suppose as long as it not too much messing around.

Mark.