Monday, January 26, 2015

Read data from old hard drive Seagate ST-1239A


I received an old hard drive from which I need to read the data.
I connect it using an AT-Interface to USB connector. (I tried two different ones with the same results). I guess it is about 210-211 MB and from the early nineties.


It is recognized as a hard drive.
Windows 8.1 suggests that I "initialize" it, but I guess then all data would be lost.
In Ubuntu it shows up as /dev/sdd but without partitions.
In hardinfo I can see a storage device called "94354-230"


If I do sudo parted --list it lists the other disks in the computer and then


Error: /dev/sdd: unrecognized disk label

If I try sudo gpart sdd the result is:


**** Fatal error: cannot get sector size on dev(sdd).

How can I read the data from this disk? What software or hardware or command line do I need to do it?


More text from the hard drive case is:


Seagate
Model ST-1239A
SWIFT
Model 94354-230
920007-004

Answer



It turns out I could read the disk in an old computer from 2006 with an ASUS P5N-E motherboard and running Windows XP. I connected it internally and it was recognized by the BIOS and Windows. I also set the BIOS to use the slowest/oldest way of communicating with the disk.


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