I want to resurrect an old amiga 600 hard drive

[paul1981]

I just use a 3.5" to 2.5" converter like the one below:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320665213393?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D320665213393%26_rdc%3D1



I hook up old laptop drives and CF adapters this way. It's ugly though as I have the wires routed up through an empty floppy bay in my tower.

If there's a USB solution that works then I'd recommend it, as not everyone likes opening their computer up. And if it's anything like mine then it's spaghetti junction in there...I avoid it if possible.

[paul1981]

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.

If you had an A600 or A1200, then you could get a CF adapter from amigakit and transfer files that way via CF card. If you don't have a laptop with a PC card slot, or if you don't have a CF card slot, then the USB multicard readers are cheap enough at £5 and you could plug the CF card into that...

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=440

CF cards are cheap as well, especially an old 100MB card, even a 1GB one.
It's easy to copy the files over, and indeed make a drive image if you wish.