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[@Gilgamex]

8:13 those old school hard drive sounds gives me the equivalent satisfaction as the sound of vacuuming heavy pockets of crusty bits from the floor hnnnnnnnnggggggggggg hell yeaaaaa

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

I knew there had to be some people out there that would appreciate the sound!

[@AllAmericanFiveRadio]

I can remember when I thought that a 128K memory card in my apple II was amazing. I still have a Windows 95 machine, I don’t think it works anymore. More Inventory!

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

I'm hoping to show another Win95 machine in the future, but that video will showcase more software.

[@emmettturner9452]

Yeah, Intel went from no heatsink, to optional heatsink, to mandatory heatsink, to mandatory heatsink with optional fan, to mandatory HSF, all before they started mandating thermal compound. Original Pentium was at that mandatory HSF stage. :)

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

Yup, our machine at that time had a 200MHz Pentium non-MMX. It only used a passive heatsink, but it did have thermal compound, if I remember correctly.

[@M_McFly]

My guess is that HDD came from another PC - probably Sue's! - with Win 95 and was then moved to this PC and NT installed... without formatting it! That would explain the lack of NTFS as well.

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

That may very well be it. First time I've ever come across an old PC that had NT along with a regular version of Windows.

[@samt4202]

I would recommend getting a older core 2 duo system with onboard IDE that is part of the chip-set and not a 3rd party ad on chip for looking at that drive. If that is not possible any system with PCI slots and a PCI to IDE card with its own dedicated bios would do. I would use Linux and image it with ddrescue as that drive does not sound very good. Not sure if there is any software on it that may not be online already.

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

I don't know that I specifically have a C2D board on hand, but I've got a bunch of other stuff that I'm sure I can cobble up something to get it read. As far as the sound of the drive, it's not all that bad, just sounds like a fairly normal spinner of the time. I just had the microphone right up to it so you could hear it ticking away as it loaded. Thank you for the Linux suggestion!

[@samt4202]

@@ThatElectronicsFool It does not have to be a C2D board, it can also be a AMD one. Just needs enough processing power to run a modern Linux distro to run ddrescue and have a hardware based IDE controller. I have had issues with the software based units or the cheap 3rd party add on chips on motherboards that just are there to tick the box for having IDE on the board.

[@AsmodeusDeviluke]

Case is an Enlight EN-6680.

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

Thanks!

[@danielkawano206]

You probably should try upgrading the cpu to a K6-2, It would be nice :)

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

I should have a K6 somewhere, just not sure if it's a 2 or 3. I think it was a 300Mhz one.

[@timmooney7528]

Regarding the drive not reading when connected through usb: could it be a file system issue? I'm curious if a modern version of Windows could view and older version of NTFS or FAT? In the past I've had trouble viewing spare hard drives I ran on a linux box due to file system.

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

I was thinking the same thing as well. I think it might be FAT on that drive. I have some older machines that I might be able to check it with, but I haven't had a chance to set up anything just yet.

[@M_McFly]

​@@ThatElectronicsFool At 12:25 it said it had two FAT partitions. I've been using PCs since DOS 2, and I don't think I've ever seen NT Server running on FAT!

[@ThatElectronicsFool]

Good catch, I was too distracted trying to get the image just right that I glossed over the fact that it said two FAT partitions.

[@PROJ3CTBM]

9:59 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭