From a DOS floppy, the drive is accessible and data is visible! I was able to recover the documents I was looking for by copying them to the secondary IDE drive and then from there in Windows 2000 copying them to a flash disk. Disable the primary IDE controller and insert controller card (In this case, a DTC 7287) along with a drive (Seagate ST-277R1). I lucked out and my (new) local thrift store had a Pentium II to spare, a bit of work to it later and it will now get to Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 desktop. The oldest machine I brought with me is a Pentium laptop - Unfortunately not helpful here. A friend of the family has gifted me a few old disk drives and controllers - 3 of which are MFM/RLL - and requested that I recover data from them if possible.ĭue to a recent move, I do not currently have access to my XT or AT and will not for some time.
