PCMCIA (PC card) slots, USB, all not working.  No way to extract my data.  The laptop was being used by my dad to view video CD’s with grandma over at her place.

So I reinstalled Solaris 64bit on my workstation again.  Time consuming task that.

I zoomed out for an hour or so, to get some SATA power cables, CD soft-case and a 2.5inch notebook IDE to 3.5inch drive interface ATA-100 connector.

Hard disk extracted, ready for data-recovery.

Opened the laptop, extracted the hard-drive.  Painstakingly reassembled the casing.  Made sure pin 1 was  correctly connected on the interface.  Wired it up to a workstation, boot up and copied everything in that 4GB hard drive.  Never knew it would take so long.

At least now, I can take a look at my old music scores again.  You see, the laptop died at the start of this year.  Glad I didn’t buy new PC cards for it.

I had the time to go connect the SATA power cables on another workstation and initiate defragmentation on the drives.

Data transfer in progress.

Here’s where the CD storage softcase is going to be handy.  I’m not going to look at another software / Operating System CD for the rest of the month.

CDs and DVDs, tools of the trade.

Back to making music, please.

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