Re: Salvage data from Performa 460?

Jonathan W. <jonsailr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One day, six years ago (maybe 7?) I came back from a two week vacation
and the internal 80meg hard drive my Performa 460 would not boot up, or
show up in any way. I limped for a week on an external Har Drive and
bought my present B&W G3-350.

Eventually I realized I was missing four and a half years of Quicken
entries, which had not been backed up because for some reason. I had
lots of stuff backed up, but not that.

I kept the old performa on the off chance I might need to try and
recover that data some day. That day has come (an audit)

Now comes the question....I have a SCSI card for my G3, and I think I
have the 50 pin connector that fits the Quantum Hard Drive in the
Performa....but I am thinking I don't want to try plugging that into my
G3 with Sys 10.3

What should I do?

If it doesn't mount (you couldn't see it when booted from the external
drive) there's nothing you can do. So perhaps it would be as well
simply to bite the bullet and send the drive to DriveSavers. This will
be expensive but they'll get the data off for you. m.


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