I have an old Western Digital hard drive (WDC AC28 50F) that came from a very old Windows 95 PC I had. There are some very important old files I'd like to retrieve from it but I am unable to. I can still boot into the OS most of the time, but the files are too big to backup onto floppy disks and there's not enough space on the computer for me to install CD burners & burning software. I've tried compression, but the files remain too big. There's no Ethernet port on this computer, only a dialup modem but I don't think there are any dialup options for Windows 95 anymore, nor any filesharing sites that are compatible with Internet Explorer 5...
I tried using an Apricorn universal hard drive adapter to plug this IDE drive into my Windows 7 computer via USB. However, while Windows 7 does see the hard drive in device manager, I can't access the hard drive. I tried to initialize it in Disk Manager, but it keeps giving me an I/O Error. EaseUS partition manager sees the hard drive as blank and unallocated even though that's not true.
Is there anything I can do to retrieve my files off this hard drive? I'd preferably like to create a virtual image of this hard drive so I can continue to run this system in a virtual machine, but if that's too difficult to do, then is there any way to just simply retrieve the individual files I need. Thanks!
I tried using an Apricorn universal hard drive adapter to plug this IDE drive into my Windows 7 computer via USB. However, while Windows 7 does see the hard drive in device manager, I can't access the hard drive. I tried to initialize it in Disk Manager, but it keeps giving me an I/O Error. EaseUS partition manager sees the hard drive as blank and unallocated even though that's not true.
Is there anything I can do to retrieve my files off this hard drive? I'd preferably like to create a virtual image of this hard drive so I can continue to run this system in a virtual machine, but if that's too difficult to do, then is there any way to just simply retrieve the individual files I need. Thanks!