Accessing data from an old hard drive?

[fraudulent_miracle]

I have an old hard drive that i'd like to possibly access some data from (like old music files and such), but i do not know how to. It is a Maxtor Ultra DMA hard drive disk back from 1998 or so, with a capacity of 4.3 gigs! Anyway, I would just like to know whether or not i can retreive data from it without reformatting it . What should i do? I'd greatly appreciate anyone's advice because I am not very tech saavy. Thanks!

 

[PCcashCow]

Does this drive have an OS on it?

 

[fraudulent_miracle]

Yes, this drive used to be the master drive with Win '98 installed on it.

 

[Pain]

Um, just stick it in a machine and move the data off of it. What am I missing here?

 

[fraudulent_miracle]

I installed the drive into my computer, but when i try to access it, it says, "this drive has not been formatted. Would you like to format now?" So what do i do now?

 

[PCcashCow]

You shouldn't have a problem.

 

[fraudulent_miracle]

Okay I think i got it... i've been doing more researching. Apparently i did not set the jumpers to slave correctly... so i'll do that, and i should be good.

 

[fraudulent_miracle]

OK sweet, i got it to work. I just had to remove the jumper from the back. Thanks for taking the time to help me out PCcashcow and Pain, i appreciate it. I'm running a virus scan on the drive and it has already found 16 trojan horses (didn't have a antivirus back then)!

 

[PCcashCow]

Good Luck with those Trojans!

 

[Darkchyld]

I installed one of these in an older computer just for that reason,
Linky thingy
Just watch your jumper, mine setup for slave, love it for check and getting data from "other" HD's.
Cheers