That drive should also mount on any Mac with a USB port. If you're just copying them to a CD or another drive the platform should make no difference since Macs can format for any machine.
Frank On Dec 11, 2009, at 02:40 PM, krf...@aol.com wrote: > Does anybody have an operable Windows 95 or 98 computer with a USB port? > > One of my ancient Windows 3.1 (yes, I'm serious!) workhorses died -- but I > think the hard drive is still good. Almost everything important was backed up > (key word: "almost"). > > I have some hardware that supposedly will let any older disk drive act as an > external disk to a new machine. But I can't get it to work in this instance. > It connects through a USB port. The problem may be that the old disk drive > has a FAT16 format, which versions of Windows above 98 don't recognize. > > I'd like to try it on a Windows 98 (or 95) machine; what I'd do would be to > copy some files either onto a floppy or a CD-ROM. It might not work, but it > would have to have a USB port to even try. > > FYI: I have another Windows 3.1 machine that still chugs along like a champ. > It doesn't have USB. I tried installing the drive from the dead machine into > it as a second HD but: > I might have been doing something wrong (although it seemed simple enough to > do) > The "old drive" may actually be bad -- although it makes "good drive" and not > "bad drive" noises > I don't know as much as I used to think I did. > > Alan Krigman > KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc > 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918 > 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 > krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com
