It still works if the issue is the board and so long as all the hardware and firmware on the drive controller happens to b the same. The reason
is no two are 100% the same. The heads can track a bit different on one drive compared to the other. So they do a calibration and write the
cheatsheet for the electronics to the firmware on the drive.

So long as that little ROM package has not been poofed and the rest is all the same you just have to do a little transplant and your back in
business at least long enough to back it up.

 

It may have been a 5.25" drive and probably 10mb. If I remember correctly I pulled the data and immediately tossed the drive. It was the same exact drive, I think it may have been in a ATT 8088, or maybe my Compaq suitcase with the red script. I remember pulling the big floppy disc drive to have two hard drives to recover.

 

I have a 3Gb full hight 5.25 drive sitting on a shelf.
Don't want to drop that beast on your foot that is for sure.
It came out of a Sun Desk Side computer.

There was nothing micro about it.

 

5.25" was small compared to the 8" stuff.

 

I can remember back to my first computer that had a 10 Mb hard drive.
I also used an Apple IIe that had no hard drive but did have a set of dual 5.25" floppies.

 

 

My first computer at home was an IBM PS2 Model 30. It came with a 720Kb floppy. I ended up adding a 5.25"
floppy and a video card that supported 512k. That computer had a 80286 without the math coprocessor.
I could add one but the price for it was crazy high. Form there is went the 80386, 80486 and so on. The one thing
I did try to do wan not go for the latest fasted system aka the leading edge or bleeding edge.

 

The facilities first two were an IBM 8086 and an ATT 8088. Due to my traveling I got updated to a Compaq suitcase, I think it was 8086. Frigging thing was like 30lbs. All started out floppies only. As I developed our DAS capability I bought (myself) an updated board for the Compaq. After that topped out, since the company wouldn't buy anymore computers or software I bought my own NEC 286 laptop with a white and black flouresent display. I loved that little guy. Had to buy my own Lotus 123 upgrade and Wysywig for Lotus when it came out. Those were the DOS days. Within the whole friggin company I had the best computer.

 

I still have MS DOS sitting around here somewhere along with a beta and final release copy of Win95.
I really like doing beta testing for MS back then.

 

Cool that you got to do that. Of course today we are all Beta......

 

You guys together aren't old enough, computer-wise to be in the ring -- anybody remember the Osborne 1? I toted one of those around... Then again I learned to code in Fortran and worked on an IBM 1800; and we had a guy that did machine code level work, that's right, he did Binary....

Also visited Xerox's PARC before all the Apple guys left to, well, create the icon based systems (I think one of the many royal screw ups of Xerox....

Yeah: SSDs are really great at having the OS and all other boot on them, as well as any common programs (say all of MS Office). Our desktop with Win 7 Pro is booted and stable, including all network connections, in less than a minute with it booting off an SSD....

Scott

 

I might have to try to figure out how to migrate OS over to the SSD without screwing everything else up.

God your old.

 

Jack on a Mac is is easy. You really only need the drive and the target drive and a bootable copy of the OS.
You use the Disk Utility to clone it to the target. There are a few good Youtube how to videos.

 

Sean, but it will still have the references to the data on the 2TB drive?

 

Here is what I do every few years.
I buy a new drive and clone everything from the old drive to the new one and then
I place the old on in storage and if I find I need something off of it I just use one of
the external drive holders and copy over what I need. The drive then goes back in it's box.

So anything on the source drive you used to make the clone will be fully accessible
so long as the drive does not have any faults.

If you still have the orignal Mac drive this will work the way they show in this video.

If not there are other ways.

If you don't have the installer and can't find it let me know I have a copy.