How to copy data off an old IDE disk

Andy Wardley abw at wardley.org
Wed Mar 26 19:18:08 GMT 2008


Andy Armstrong wrote:
> Can you boot from an Ubuntu live CD with the drive as master? Does the 
> machine have two IDE channels? Can you hook the drive up as master on 
> the 2nd i/f?

Nope, just the one IDE channel.  It's a small form all-in-one ASUS
motherboard.  I'm going to try the live CD now.

Cheers
A



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