I have 3 SCSI hard drives from a Microsoft Windows 2003 server with lots of important information on them but no SCSI adaptable computer/server to extract the data. Should i buy a SCSI controller and connect the drives through my desktop on a SCSI controller or will gay windows want to reformat before even trying to read my data? Please help this is important information...
2006-08-09 05:04:33 · 3 answers · asked by sobe50418 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I run SCSI SCA drives in my junk PCs, as I bought some controller cards on ebay, for 68 pin SCSI, and some adapters to break out the power from the data connectors. Total including the 10,000 rpm and 15,000 rpm drives, comes out to about $0.40 per Gb.
Then, I boot from a Linux LiveCDrom, which runs in RAM disc, and it finds any drives of any type, any filesystem, so that I can copy the data over to my DVD burner, or, to any drive on the networked computers, or to any external drives, Firewire, USB, Scsi, CD burner, IDE drives in external cases!
It's simply YOUR data, so that is why Microsoft doesn't 'get it'!
You mention that Microsoft wants to re-format any 'new' drives. Who owns YOUR data?
Yeah, Microsoft.com runs behind 15,000 Akamai Linux computers, and, Hotmail.com and Msn.com run Linux on their 30,000 systems... Yeah, GNU/Linux is THAT good!
Now, SCSI drives have lifetimes of 7 to 10 years, running 24/7/365. Linux loves SCSI, and, Linux runs 50X faster than Microsoft, on the same hardware. There are no successful virus definitions in the wild, for GNU/Linux, or, the BSDs.
2006-08-09 15:15:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Worst comes to worst you'll need a SCSI controller in order to connect to these drives, but maybe there is another option available. The server that these drives came from, was it backed up on other media like tapes or dvds? If, that is true, you may have a easier chances of retreiving the data without having to go out and buying and configuring a a scsi controller. But if not, than yes, that is your only viable option.
2006-08-09 12:14:08 · answer #2 · answered by Elliot K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that would probably be your best option
2006-08-09 12:11:32 · answer #3 · answered by salute222000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋