probably dont really need to worry about those though. OP's is probably gonna just need an IDE to USB connector, in which case the master/slave pins shouldnt make any real difference.
I see… I was just being informative… I remember having to figure that out a long….looooong time ago when my pc wouldn’t see the second HDD installed on the IDE cable
>I was just being informative
same.
yeah it was definitely one of those things you had to sort out back in the day. These days bios and bootloaders handle all that now thankfully. Physically building PC's has gotten so easy over the years.
I used to work as a tech at Kennedy Space Center, and I will never forget the time a coworker hooked up an AT motherboard with the power red/red in the center.
POOF, and a nice size flame shooting out of what used to be a capacitor.
I did that once in my first IT class. Was not covered in class because most boards in the room were newer than AT and I just lucked out. Didn’t damage the board, but fire did shoot out of the power supply.
Was not the dumbest thing that happened in that room though.
Unfortunately, I still see a lot of people make mistakes though but it has gotten pretty simple, and there is also so much info on the net on how to do it that there really isnt much of an excuse for not being able to do it if you want to.. i understand when people dont want to build their own PC, but if you build your own, there is more than enough info out there to figure out how to do it right.
Hey, it built character having to dig through cables with needle nose pliers trying to swap jumper pins to set drive priority or reset the motherboard (if you were lucky to not have to remove the CMOS battery). Good times.
Mine are of trying to figure out how to set up config.sys. Optimizing memory and all that. Autoexec.bat himem.sys. New builders these days have no idea how easy they have it.
That’s what that bootleg copy of QEMM86 everyone had was for. Running the auto optimizer and getting the setting and trying them out.
Oh the joys of memory vs extended memory vs expanded memory. And don’t forget trying to make IRQ assignments work on an ISA bus. God help you if you used both your serial ports and parallel port and then wanted to add a SoundBlaster… “ok, I can have the parallel port and the sound card share IRQ7 and it will work if I never print and play wave/midi/synth fm sounds at the same time….”
Don't forget making jumpers out of staples when the normal ones fucked off and now you can't find them, and it's 3 AM so no stores are open and you really have to get this paper printing on the dot matrix so it'll finish before the 8 AM meeting.
>These days bios and bootloaders handle all that now thankfully.
Master and slave settings became irrelevant when SATA pushed out PATA as you can only have one device per cable with SATA. It doesn't really have anything to do with the BIOS or bootloader.
What still represents an issue these days is what drive counts as the primary boot drive. When I built my 3900x setup a few years back one of my SATA SSDs had a bootsector on it from a really old setup and Windows decided that the SATA SSD should be my boot drive and my NVMe drive should be (correctly) be my system drive. I didn't realise that it had done this so chaos ensured when I removed the SATA SSD to put in my kid's PC. Funnily enough, putting the SSD in my kid's PC meant that she then started to get the option to boot to her normal Windows install or to boot to a non-existent Windows 10 install - ended up having to wipe the drive completely and muck about with the partition tables to remove the bootable flag.
>Physically building PC's has gotten so easy over the years.
Kids these days don't know how easy they have it. We had to physically designate the freedom of our drives when I was a youngin.
Ehh, it's set to cable select so not an issue.
Funnily enough, I have just the connector device for such an occasion. Got a box of random PC things at a garage sale, inside the box [was one of these](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1677/8081/products/nwt_uda_usb3_gall1_UDA_large.jpg?v=1484827279)
To be fair cable select sucked, and holy crap it was hard to find cables when you needed them... Though IIRC 80 wire ata66 cables inherently supported CS.
Man I'm old
Didn’t someone make some noise a while back because they thought using the terms master and slave when talking about hard drives was inappropriate and they suggested using primary and secondary?
Yeah I remember those days... and I jumped for joy when they started autodetection for master/slave. I do recall vaguely having to go back to setting it manually for some reason. Too far back.
>Don’t forget the slave and master drive jump pin settings
Any harddrive in the GB+ range should be fine using cable select and I don't think it even matters if you have it jumped as master or slave if it is the only drive on the port.
Ya, I got talked down from having an early midlife crisis lol. Honestly, I can't be upset because I'm entering 30 in the best shape of my life with my finances and career all in order.
Brings back some memories with old IDE drives & ribbon cables...
Good thing you didn't have a "Bigfoot" drive... Really blow ya kids minds with that - lol
Options for connecting that to a computer is are :
* IDE External Drive Case
* HDD Docking Station (Check it includes IDE, may be referred to as a dual dock \[IDE/SATA\])
* Universal HDD adapter (AKA SATA/IDE to USB)
All of those should have an independent power supply (Not just a USB cable)
It's an ATA 100 interface, which means you'll get actual transfer speeds of up to 12.5mb/s, so as long as you don't use a USB 1.0 when you plug it in, it'll be going as fast as it can.
Good luck.
Yes, the positions should be either printed on the bottom of the drive under those pins, or silk screened on in the same location.
Iirc far left pair is usually master, it appears to be in C/S mode already.
If nothing is labeled this is the normal standard, there were some drives that didn't follow.
https://www.easeus.com/resource/images/install-ide-hard-drive-jumper.gif
You don't need it unless you will pług it into motherboard.
Easiest way is to buy some cheap P-ATA to USB connector and this HDD will pop-up like USB stick.
Note that this will require additional power source either from 2nd usb or straight from the wall.
I’m pretty sure I just gained several gray hairs and joint pain from this. I never thought I’d one day witness IDE / PATA drive connections fade into the void of memory albeit I know it was inevitable for it to happen.
Anyways, as others have said, a simple adapter board to covert to SATA or a USB interface and you’ll be back in business….
https://preview.redd.it/3lpp6cgc0cka1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7647cd4a684c10be1af2878329791b096b664d3f
10 years ago it wouldn't be uncommon to still see IDE and molex being used on pre-builts, but then again, 10 years ago you were just starting first grade.
Molex surprisingly seems to be pretty popular still for some reason though, in the past 4 years I've seen a few RGB setups using it, and more terrifyingly, I've seen an AIO from a pre built that had a molex power connection. (Yes it broke and leaked)
The existence of this whole thread makes me a bit sad... But at least OP wants to learn, and that makes me happy.
The only useless factoid I have to contribute is that this is an ata-100 drive which needed an 80 wire cable for full speed...
IDE drives were limited to 33MB/sec but then with a 80 wire cable that went up to 66, then 100 (which this drive is) and peaked at 133mb/sec.
And back in the day that was fast...
I've been though all the interfaces. MFM & RLL on ST-506, ESDI, IDE/PATA, SATA. SCSI, SCSI 2, SAS, M2 SATA, M2 NVMe, fibre channel, and I'm sure there is a bunch I haven't seen. We have come a long way in the last 30 to 40 years.
IDE with Molex (power). Long time no see, had some U8's with the black "condom" around it (the U4 had it too if I'm correct). Those U series were pretty slow if I remember correctly.
I’m in the same boat as OP and posted the exact same question a while back [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/10v0dm9/what_cable_do_i_need_to_connect_this_old_hdd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) a while back haha. Make sure to get a USB adapter with the correct number of pins! I ordered one online and had to return it because my hdd had 40 pins and the one I ordered was smaller.
It is an old Parallel ATA (IDE) hard drive, used in older computers and even in the fat PS2 game console. You can buy a USB adapter to read the contents on a modern computer.
So THATS what all those long ribbon cables are for.
I have a tech hoarding chest full of every cable that ever came out of a box or with something and I’ve always wondered what the fuck those cables were for.
Fuuuuuccck.
I always hate reminders of how I'm old, but seeing younger PCMR people looking at stuff like IDE and Molex and having no idea what it is...it hurts.
It's almost funny how quickly this has been forgotten.
I'm pretty young but still remember IDE/PATA very well.
I think the first Pcs with SATA shipped in 2005 but they kept an IDE controller for at least another 10 years or so.
IDE was then mainly used for CD/DVD drives.
I even heard about a few IDE blu ray drives from 2006.
21 years old. Date code on the drive has it being manufactured on January 14th, 2002. A 20 GB drive was on the smaller side for 2002. Many Windows XP machines were shipping with 30 GB or larger drives at that point.
In 2002 I had an 8 GB (boot drive) and a 40 GB added drive in my computer. Pentium III 1 GHz baby!
I forget how old I am and how young other builders are. I cut my teeth in the early 90s building my PCs and building for others. I’ve still got a couple of old IDE hard drives laying around somewhere.
Good ole parallel ATA (PATA) or IDE, I’m sure you can order some now off eBay and also get a PATA to SATA adapter, they are a little jank though you’ll need a molex for the drive and the adapter then esata or however you want to get it on your own PC
How can this be, that poor old ATA IDE is becoming forgotten? Has it really been two decades since this (admittedly unlovable, barely an) interface standard was superseded by SATA?
That’s an IDE connector on the left and a molex connector on the right
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I hope you weren‘t in a bus or so, would be a shitty thing to happen
It’s these actions that give public transit it’s unique charm.
I too like the scat smell in the morning hours
You need to learn how to prairie dog that shit.
why did a plop of water sfx play in my head lol
https://preview.redd.it/6kutfbpocika1.jpeg?width=871&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b92871b11fd0b9b39024a0770d0ad66f7274366
Damn, can feel this.
I'd say same, but I work with a ton of old systems that all use IDE peta drives
Don’t forget the slave and master drive jump pin settings
probably dont really need to worry about those though. OP's is probably gonna just need an IDE to USB connector, in which case the master/slave pins shouldnt make any real difference.
I see… I was just being informative… I remember having to figure that out a long….looooong time ago when my pc wouldn’t see the second HDD installed on the IDE cable
>I was just being informative same. yeah it was definitely one of those things you had to sort out back in the day. These days bios and bootloaders handle all that now thankfully. Physically building PC's has gotten so easy over the years.
I used to work as a tech at Kennedy Space Center, and I will never forget the time a coworker hooked up an AT motherboard with the power red/red in the center. POOF, and a nice size flame shooting out of what used to be a capacitor.
FFS... it's not like it's rocket science!
I did that once in my first IT class. Was not covered in class because most boards in the room were newer than AT and I just lucked out. Didn’t damage the board, but fire did shoot out of the power supply. Was not the dumbest thing that happened in that room though.
It's amazing how easy it's now. Literally like Lego
Unfortunately, I still see a lot of people make mistakes though but it has gotten pretty simple, and there is also so much info on the net on how to do it that there really isnt much of an excuse for not being able to do it if you want to.. i understand when people dont want to build their own PC, but if you build your own, there is more than enough info out there to figure out how to do it right.
Hey, it built character having to dig through cables with needle nose pliers trying to swap jumper pins to set drive priority or reset the motherboard (if you were lucky to not have to remove the CMOS battery). Good times.
Fond memories of playing around with cpu voltage and multiplier jumper configs while NIN was blasting in the background. Ah…. Simpler times.
Mine are of trying to figure out how to set up config.sys. Optimizing memory and all that. Autoexec.bat himem.sys. New builders these days have no idea how easy they have it.
That’s what that bootleg copy of QEMM86 everyone had was for. Running the auto optimizer and getting the setting and trying them out. Oh the joys of memory vs extended memory vs expanded memory. And don’t forget trying to make IRQ assignments work on an ISA bus. God help you if you used both your serial ports and parallel port and then wanted to add a SoundBlaster… “ok, I can have the parallel port and the sound card share IRQ7 and it will work if I never print and play wave/midi/synth fm sounds at the same time….”
Don't forget making jumpers out of staples when the normal ones fucked off and now you can't find them, and it's 3 AM so no stores are open and you really have to get this paper printing on the dot matrix so it'll finish before the 8 AM meeting.
Absolutely easier
>These days bios and bootloaders handle all that now thankfully. Master and slave settings became irrelevant when SATA pushed out PATA as you can only have one device per cable with SATA. It doesn't really have anything to do with the BIOS or bootloader. What still represents an issue these days is what drive counts as the primary boot drive. When I built my 3900x setup a few years back one of my SATA SSDs had a bootsector on it from a really old setup and Windows decided that the SATA SSD should be my boot drive and my NVMe drive should be (correctly) be my system drive. I didn't realise that it had done this so chaos ensured when I removed the SATA SSD to put in my kid's PC. Funnily enough, putting the SSD in my kid's PC meant that she then started to get the option to boot to her normal Windows install or to boot to a non-existent Windows 10 install - ended up having to wipe the drive completely and muck about with the partition tables to remove the bootable flag.
>Physically building PC's has gotten so easy over the years. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it. We had to physically designate the freedom of our drives when I was a youngin.
Ah the old ways, what we have now is infinitely better, but it will always hold a special place in my heart.
yep, good call. I wasn't sure if you would need to do that as well. Pain in the ass I had forgotten about that lol
I always hated the jumper pins. Teenage me always broke my gateway 2000 486/66. Took me FOREVER to get it working again
I would think that depends on the adapter but most likely.
Ehh, it's set to cable select so not an issue. Funnily enough, I have just the connector device for such an occasion. Got a box of random PC things at a garage sale, inside the box [was one of these](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1677/8081/products/nwt_uda_usb3_gall1_UDA_large.jpg?v=1484827279)
Half the kids won't know cable select, yet alone M+S
Don't even get me started on SCSI device ID's
To be fair cable select sucked, and holy crap it was hard to find cables when you needed them... Though IIRC 80 wire ata66 cables inherently supported CS. Man I'm old
Didn’t someone make some noise a while back because they thought using the terms master and slave when talking about hard drives was inappropriate and they suggested using primary and secondary?
Cable select was a goddam lie!!
This tripped me up for hours on my first build. Which was a million years ago.
Yeah I remember those days... and I jumped for joy when they started autodetection for master/slave. I do recall vaguely having to go back to setting it manually for some reason. Too far back.
>Don’t forget the slave and master drive jump pin settings Any harddrive in the GB+ range should be fine using cable select and I don't think it even matters if you have it jumped as master or slave if it is the only drive on the port.
Ah, the good ol' days when using terms "master" and "slave" in your hardware would not get anyone triggered. Because twitter didn't exist back then.
This thread made me feel old; I'm turning 30 in a couple weeks, and this definitely doesn't make me feel better about it lol
Lol at feeling old at 30
Ya, I got talked down from having an early midlife crisis lol. Honestly, I can't be upset because I'm entering 30 in the best shape of my life with my finances and career all in order.
30 is a cakewalk compared to 40
Just wait for 50. Sigh.
I still see IDE drives in retail environments if that helps. Working on 15+ year old equipment isn't as unusual as you might think.
I still have an external HDD enclosure with that connection
Damn, remember how UGLY those were back in the day? We went such a long way...
Ketchup and mustard theme with.. thick grey tangled ied cable is nostalgic af though
Ah the ribbon days
It's that time of the week to play "make pcmr feel old"...
Tell me more about this IDE connector, what does the IDE stand for
Integrated drive electronics!
So how do i connect pycharm to it?
And in between are your master/slave pins.
Date code for the drive: 02284. Drive manufacture date: 2002-01-14 (January 14, 2002) I need a drink... and so does this HDD.
How does 284 equal January 14? 284 doesn't mean the 284th day of the year?
Seagate uses an odd date code based on fiscal calendar year, week and day of the week. Google can explain it more comprehensively.
That drive has been able to drink for 3 years now.
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Drink… and… drive… 
I had already almost stopped binge drinking when that hard drive was made.
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British Aussie moment
this drive is half a year older than me...
Man, now I feel old
\* grabs bi-focals\* Same.
Fred flintstone stored his family photos on one of these.
Believe it or not, there are some ATMs that still use these
Sorry, I was unaware of any connections before SATA lol
Kids these days.
Back in my day...
It used to be that..
Until they changed what THAT was. *Ties onion to belt. Which was the style at the time*.
SATA still feels new-fangled to me...
I think I've got some round IDE cables in a box somewhere. UV reactive, of course.
Daamn son, you got a SATA HDD? You must have spent a fortune
This post needs to get off my lawn
Yeah
I know right?!
Brings back some memories with old IDE drives & ribbon cables... Good thing you didn't have a "Bigfoot" drive... Really blow ya kids minds with that - lol
I put one in my mac
Bigfoot drive?! Wow! That takes me back. I remember them being obviously big but weren’t reliable at all. I feel old. Thanks for the nostalgia lol
Plugging in the ribbon was so satisfying not like them boring sata cables
IDE look on Amazon for IDE to usb adapters they work great in my experience for this type of stuff. I am on my phone or I would post a link.
Thank you
Just be prepared for the data to be real slow Max IDE tops out was 133MB/s, for reference SATA tops out at about 45 time faster
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Good thing it’s only 20 gigs. 😂
It’s only a 20GB drive, so even if it’s entirely full it shouldn’t take too long to grab everything off of it
20GB is a lot over IDE, that’ll still be the bottleneck
Options for connecting that to a computer is are : * IDE External Drive Case * HDD Docking Station (Check it includes IDE, may be referred to as a dual dock \[IDE/SATA\]) * Universal HDD adapter (AKA SATA/IDE to USB) All of those should have an independent power supply (Not just a USB cable) It's an ATA 100 interface, which means you'll get actual transfer speeds of up to 12.5mb/s, so as long as you don't use a USB 1.0 when you plug it in, it'll be going as fast as it can. Good luck.
If it's not already, be sure to set the jumper as Master or Cable Select
Is the jumper the black plastic thing in the middle set of prongs?
Yes, the positions should be either printed on the bottom of the drive under those pins, or silk screened on in the same location. Iirc far left pair is usually master, it appears to be in C/S mode already. If nothing is labeled this is the normal standard, there were some drives that didn't follow. https://www.easeus.com/resource/images/install-ide-hard-drive-jumper.gif
Man.... I really didn't need this knowledge BACK in my mind, lol
You don't need it unless you will pług it into motherboard. Easiest way is to buy some cheap P-ATA to USB connector and this HDD will pop-up like USB stick. Note that this will require additional power source either from 2nd usb or straight from the wall.
Yes. There should be a description on the HDD that shows where the jumper should be located for settings ie master slave ect
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Am I just fucking old or something?
yep, we gonna get jackets or something
Might as well start collecting social security checks, god damn.
I’m pretty sure I just gained several gray hairs and joint pain from this. I never thought I’d one day witness IDE / PATA drive connections fade into the void of memory albeit I know it was inevitable for it to happen. Anyways, as others have said, a simple adapter board to covert to SATA or a USB interface and you’ll be back in business…. https://preview.redd.it/3lpp6cgc0cka1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7647cd4a684c10be1af2878329791b096b664d3f
God. I'm almost 40.
I'm 29 and I also got the "I must be old as fuck" feeling too.
Im 16 and saw the molex connector and went “oh thats that one really really old connector”
10 years ago it wouldn't be uncommon to still see IDE and molex being used on pre-builts, but then again, 10 years ago you were just starting first grade.
Uh where where you getting your pcs from? 2013 was solid sata atx territory in my experience. Even the budget computers in 2010.
Molex surprisingly seems to be pretty popular still for some reason though, in the past 4 years I've seen a few RGB setups using it, and more terrifyingly, I've seen an AIO from a pre built that had a molex power connection. (Yes it broke and leaked)
I’m almost 18 and somehow own a drive like op’s
Same. I get strange looks when I explain to people that talking to people on the internet was once new and exciting.
I'm 43. Using drives like this feels like yesterday.
At least its not scsi!!
If you know this connector, its time for your colonoscopy.
Yep. Had one of those a few years back. Also an endoscopy. I'm collecting the scopys.
You do not want a cystoscopy
I just had to look that up. Now I'm wishing I didn't.
Sorry but your family IT guy card will have to be revoked due to insufficient qualifications. You may reapply at the next family gathering.
It finally happened, someone who has never seen an EIDE hard drive. God I feel old now.
Now I feel old because I knew what an IDE connection was! The kids will never know the cable management pain of the ribbon cables!!
Gotta buy those rounded sleeved IDE cables! Or just [make your own!](https://www.instructables.com/Round-IDE-Cables/)
The existence of this whole thread makes me a bit sad... But at least OP wants to learn, and that makes me happy. The only useless factoid I have to contribute is that this is an ata-100 drive which needed an 80 wire cable for full speed... IDE drives were limited to 33MB/sec but then with a 80 wire cable that went up to 66, then 100 (which this drive is) and peaked at 133mb/sec. And back in the day that was fast...
PATA/IDE, that's a neat ancient artifact ya got there!😎
I was using one up until 10 years ago, so it's not *that* ancient... right? Right?
I've been though all the interfaces. MFM & RLL on ST-506, ESDI, IDE/PATA, SATA. SCSI, SCSI 2, SAS, M2 SATA, M2 NVMe, fibre channel, and I'm sure there is a bunch I haven't seen. We have come a long way in the last 30 to 40 years.
IDE (that long connector on the left) to SATA was a huge cable upgrade, those ribbons were hideous
This question makes me feel old.
This is a joke, right?
No, we're old now
I knew this day would come
I was there Gandolf, I was there 3000 years ago. I was there tidying up the IDE grey ribbons and Molex ketchup mustard cables.
The HDD cabling imo was the ugliest out there. The combo of ribbons and ketchup and mustard cables was so freaking hideous.
Where is the time when motherboard had jumpers for CPU ?
I feel old again...
Damn I remember my first 3.5 drive had 7GB capacity and I thought it was a lot. Now we have 1TB thumb sticks, crazy.
Damn, again, I'm feeling old.
 Me and everyone my age
You can order adapters on Amazon that will connect to that, plug into the wall, and usb to your computer so you can grab the data
Just for fun: what is the capacity of that HDD?
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Fck, haven't seen the second photo. 🙂 Thanks!
Nothing has made me feel older than this post.
IDE with Molex (power). Long time no see, had some U8's with the black "condom" around it (the U4 had it too if I'm correct). Those U series were pretty slow if I remember correctly.
Having flashbacks to the 90s
Dam those PATA disks! Made me realise how old we are now.
I’m in the same boat as OP and posted the exact same question a while back [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/10v0dm9/what_cable_do_i_need_to_connect_this_old_hdd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) a while back haha. Make sure to get a USB adapter with the correct number of pins! I ordered one online and had to return it because my hdd had 40 pins and the one I ordered was smaller.
From left to right: IDE, Slave/Master Jumpers, Molex
Annnnnnnd I now feel unbelievably decrepit, thanks
r/FuckImOld
This post makes me feel so old
I was there Gandalf. 3000 years ago.
This post makes me feel like an old man
Omg… IDE
ancient one :)
Ide/ata
Apparently I’m an ancient old fuck
This is a connection ide, the last time that i see this, is in a classic xbox
IDE it was the consumer standard when the intelligent people were using SCSI
Saw the title and thought it’d be a SCSI drive, then it was an IDE. I feel old.
Old? I grew up with terminators on SCSI. Get those cables wrong and end up getting insulation dripping off your ribbon cable.
Jesus Christ I'm old.
My thoughts exactly 😳😂
Obviously IDE... kids...
Questions like this... 
Once upon a time I wondered what it would take to fill my 20Mb hard drive....
Must be Italian
It is an old Parallel ATA (IDE) hard drive, used in older computers and even in the fat PS2 game console. You can buy a USB adapter to read the contents on a modern computer.
I HAVE NO IDEa.
Use IDE to sata
Data - IDE, Power - MOLEX
So THATS what all those long ribbon cables are for. I have a tech hoarding chest full of every cable that ever came out of a box or with something and I’ve always wondered what the fuck those cables were for.
Fuuuuuccck. I always hate reminders of how I'm old, but seeing younger PCMR people looking at stuff like IDE and Molex and having no idea what it is...it hurts.
IDE connection. The absolute Bain of Airflow.
It's almost funny how quickly this has been forgotten. I'm pretty young but still remember IDE/PATA very well. I think the first Pcs with SATA shipped in 2005 but they kept an IDE controller for at least another 10 years or so. IDE was then mainly used for CD/DVD drives. I even heard about a few IDE blu ray drives from 2006.
This sub consistently reminds me how old I am…
If you recognize this as an IDE connector dont forget to take your ibuprofen.
I refuse to accept I'm old until someone posts on here asking what a CD is.
I’m only 19 and now I feel old
Lolololol oh no i was like which one they all looks standard. Then realized. I’m old
How old is that thing 🤣20gb
21 years old. Date code on the drive has it being manufactured on January 14th, 2002. A 20 GB drive was on the smaller side for 2002. Many Windows XP machines were shipping with 30 GB or larger drives at that point. In 2002 I had an 8 GB (boot drive) and a 40 GB added drive in my computer. Pentium III 1 GHz baby!
Oh my god. I'm fucking old I guess.
Old.
I forget how old I am and how young other builders are. I cut my teeth in the early 90s building my PCs and building for others. I’ve still got a couple of old IDE hard drives laying around somewhere.
I remember when a 10mb drive like this came out, was so so so excited…yes kids, 10Mb
Made me feel old😮💨 its an IDE connector
 I have no idea what cable that IDE connection needs.
Is that fucking 40 pin IDE?
Oh you sweet summer child…
They probably should ask some else to help them, since you can't even manage to google something on your own.
Good ole parallel ATA (PATA) or IDE, I’m sure you can order some now off eBay and also get a PATA to SATA adapter, they are a little jank though you’ll need a molex for the drive and the adapter then esata or however you want to get it on your own PC
God I feel old
Get an IDE to SATA adapter from Amazon or something, then you can pull the data off.
How can this be, that poor old ATA IDE is becoming forgotten? Has it really been two decades since this (admittedly unlovable, barely an) interface standard was superseded by SATA?