The drive in my IBM 5545T is full of programs and games that I haven't seen before. Things that were made locally even; only 20 miles from my house!
Because of this I really want to clone the drive and preserve everything on it.
Since the drive is ESDI, I have no way of connecting it to another machine for backups.
Since the floppy drive is dead, at least for now, I can't copy files off. I would prefer to not use this method due to possible data corruption anyways.
To make matters worse, the drive has been compressed.
I'm guessing my best bet would be to interface with the machine via parallel or serial, but it's been so long since I've done something like that.
Anyone have ideas?
Because of this I really want to clone the drive and preserve everything on it.
Since the drive is ESDI, I have no way of connecting it to another machine for backups.
Since the floppy drive is dead, at least for now, I can't copy files off. I would prefer to not use this method due to possible data corruption anyways.
To make matters worse, the drive has been compressed.
I'm guessing my best bet would be to interface with the machine via parallel or serial, but it's been so long since I've done something like that.
Anyone have ideas?