I'm trying to recover data from a Windows 98 PC, and I would like to back up the hard drive (which appears to be failing). I can still read data intermittently, and it sounds like it keeps doing repetitive seeking before it gives me data read errors and general drive read failures. The computer doesn't even detect the drive half the time, and it won't boot from that drive at all.I would like to try and boot from a Linux recovery distro and see what I can do, namely clone the failing drive before doing anything else, but the optical drive doesn't appear to be plug-and-play (I can't boot off of it because the optical drive only works after drivers are already loaded), and I couldn't get a USB stick to work, so it seems like the only option left is to boot from a 1.44MB floppy disk and get the computer to clone the hard drive itself. I've added another drive, and that one works flawlessly, so it seems only the master drive is bad.It's actually harder to get a straight answer on which linux distros you can boot from a floppy disk than I would've thought. It doesn't even matter if it has to be an old version, people are saying the wrong version number is capable of doing so (like with RIPLinuX, so I don't know which ridiculous version to use), and I'd prefer one centered on data recovery anyway.It's a "Proteva Pro Series" PC, I guess. (Not pictured.) It doesn't sound very distinct, but apparently they thought it was distinct enough to brand it that way.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about and I don't give a shit, but this is what you do:1. Take out the fucking harddrive2. Hook it up as an external drive on a WORKING system3. get testdisk or ddrescue or some bullshit and save what you can
>>107838276What the hell is your problem, and why the fuck did you even respond if this is something that apparently makes you so angry? Are you a masochist?What if I don't have another computer that can interface with IDE drives, have you ever thought of that?!
you can use clonezilla to make an image of the existing hard drive to your known good drive. clonezilla is technically a distro. it doesnt matter what boot floppy you use so long as it loads the driver for the cd rom drive. there's one called floppinux which loads into a basic linux system.
>>107838240take the drive out retardyou aren't going to be running anything useful for this on that pc
>>107838299>What if I don't have another computer that can interface with IDE drivesGet an IDE -> USB adapter
>>107838330Imagine not reading, (period). >>107838299>you aren't going to be running anything useful for this on that pcImagine a world where retro gaming is a crime.
>>107838346what part of "for this" did you not understand?
>>107838345And what if I don't have one of those either, and I don't want to wait a day for one to show up from Amazon?Is it really *that* bad to focus on what I can do right now? Is it really shitting up the internet that much for you, as if you aren't worse!?
>>107838362The part of it that I did understand is you just want to troll right now instead of entertaining the way I want to do something, because your attention span is *that* short...
>>107838323The issue is how would I even use something like Clonezilla if I need to boot into something else first just to load the CD-ROM drivers?
>>107838452use this to boot a clonezilla disc https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/plpbt.bin.html#runflp
>>107838240Just throw it in the trash and get a google pixelIts a lot faster and much more capableWhat, too advanced for you, unc?Bit much of a luddite wouldn't you say?You must be a dinosaur if you want to play Rollercoaster Tycoon to recreate the good ol' days, unc
>>107838501>Bit much of a luddite wouldn't you say?Nah.>You must be a dinosaur if you want to play Rollercoaster Tycoon to recreate the good ol' days, uncI, uh... Yes.
>>107838452you could boot into an ms-dos environment too using a boot disk then use clonezilla by launching it from a disc if there is a setup script that will execute from that shell provided by booting from floppy. since the computer doesn't boot from CD, there's things like IDE to USB converters which can be used to plug the win98 drive into the other computer.
>>107838240Floppy? https://github.com/w84death/floppinuxMost likely you're just best off removing the drive and using ddrescue or sth on a modern computer.
>>107838276>ddrescueThis is the correct response. You need to use ddrescue to clone this drive as fully as possible to new media. Only then can you start thinking about repairing the filesystem or using something like testdisk to scan for known filetypes. I've used ddrescue multiple times to pull data from storage that was failing. So many other tools assume your storage is healthy & will crash the moment your SATA/USB/etc link drops out. ddrescue just picks up from the log file & keeps copying.
>>107838366You keep grinding at a failing drive you're going to kill it for good.Get the IDE-USB adapter OR find a computer that has IDE + SATA or whatever OR try installing an OS to another drive on that 1999 computer.Meanwhile chill (the drive, as in put it in a ziploc bag in the freezer) until you're ready to do the data rescue, sometimes that works on drives from that era.
>>107839265Everything on and about the computer says 1998, but I'm doing it right now, I just need to add more RAM cause I guess "65"MB isn't enough for Clonezilla. I'm also adding a soundcard and seeing what I can do with salvage parts.Some idiot who was in here before me put the CPU fan connector on the chassis fan output.
>>107838240Take it out and image it externally.
>>107838299>What if I don't have another computer that can interface with IDE drives,There are literally adapters out there for that purpose, anon.
