How can I read this drive on a PC that has USB so I can copy the data over? Even with an IDE card in a new-ish PC I cannot mount this drive. I tried connecting the Western Digital Caviar WD-2540 EIDE HDD to the new PC using an IDE interface card that I bought upon booting, the card’s BIOS “sees” the Western Digital Caviar WD-2540 EIDE HDD but I can’t mount the drive to the PC to copy the data, neither can I boot from that drive. I have tried to hang that Western Digital Caviar WD-2540 EIDE HDD off of a Windows 10 machine using an IDE-to-USB dongle - the drive is “seen” by Windows but Windows says “no media in drive” and I can’t mount it in Windows. I would like to copy about 220 MB of data from the old Western Digital Caviar WD-2540 EIDE HDD to a USB flash drive. (Or you can just buy LANtastics LAN, which runs great on a small network and only takes about 15K of overhead.) So memory management on a 286 is simple-load the HIMEM.SYS driver first thing in your CONFIG.SYS and use the DOSHIGH command to load DOS above 1024K. That new machine can read data from USB flash drives with no problem. I have built a new machine running DOS 7.1 with new hardware. I fear that the old hard drive or the PC itself will fail at any minute, causing this poor guy to go out of business. The machine is an old Gateway 2000 with a 486 CPU. I am trying to help someone with an old PC, he runs his small business on a DOS version of FoxPro on a Western Digital Caviar WD-2540 EIDE HDD.
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