Getting Files From an Old Computer

[DontSayBanana]

I very much doubt that the computer shop would care about regular porn.

If AR's HDD has child porn on it however...

Somewhat this, but really, when I get customer drives to transfer, I don't even look at filenames- only times I even look are to make sure folders are being copied and then again to make sure everything copied successfully (again, not looking at filenames- I check folder sizes to make sure they match).

My boss and I have been known to crack a few porn jokes to customers who are okay with it who've brought in machines for virus removal, though.

[garbon]

Making it an external requires almost no effort. Or at least I'd say something like that if I had any thought that your posts had some connection to real world events.

[alfred russel]

Making it an external requires almost no effort. Or at least I'd say something like that if I had any thought that your posts had some connection to real world events.

I googled how to do this. It think I need to buy a hard drive enclosure for ~$20.

It seems I need to know whether my hard drive is IDE or SATA...the computer model is a Compaq 7110US running windows ME.

I'd assume by age the hard drive is IDE, but can anyone confirm? Google is not so explicit.

[alfred russel]

I very much doubt that the computer shop would care about regular porn.

If AR's HDD has child porn on it however...

Somewhat this, but really, when I get customer drives to transfer, I don't even look at filenames- only times I even look are to make sure folders are being copied and then again to make sure everything copied successfully (again, not looking at filenames- I check folder sizes to make sure they match).

My boss and I have been known to crack a few porn jokes to customers who are okay with it who've brought in machines for virus removal, though.

First, it is probably good that I don't have your job, because I would completely go in the opposite direction.

Second, it isn't just about porn. I'm not sure what I have on this computer. I almost certainly have financial information. I might have some pictures from college that weren't meant for mass distribution. I probably have applications and cover letters etc. that I wouldn't want to get around.

[DontSayBanana]

Some Google fu reminded me of something I'd forgotten: SATA wasn't introduced until 2003, so it's definitely IDE.

[alfred russel]

Some Google fu reminded me of something I'd forgotten: SATA wasn't introduced until 2003, so it's definitely IDE.

Is it possible I was wrong about the year?

The hard drive specs I found are:

Hard Drive
Hard Drive Capacity       60 GB
Hard Drive Interface       DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra)
http://www.shopping.com/Compaq-Presario-7110US-470016-083/info

ATA is close to SATA....

[DontSayBanana]

Is it possible I was wrong about the year?

The hard drive specs I found are:

Hard Drive
Hard Drive Capacity       60 GB
Hard Drive Interface       DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra)
http://www.shopping.com/Compaq-Presario-7110US-470016-083/info

ATA is close to SATA....

Nah.  Long story short, IDE drives were also known as PATA (Parallel ATA).  SATA (Serial ATA) was introduced to speed up how quickly data could get from the drive to the system memory.  The 100 is how many times a second the parallel port can pulse, which is another way to tell that the drive isn't serial.

Edit: how many times a second, times 1000.  That speed is in MHz, so it's actually 100,000 times a second.  My bad.

[alfred russel]

I got it to work. Thanks everybody.