Toshiba 400CDT & Tecra 500CDT

[KLund1]

HI again,
I have a working 500CDT with a Toshiba branded install of Win95.
I somehow want to clone this drive to a blank drive I can use in the 400CDT.
The 400CDT has no hard drive so I got a compatible black one.
I have pulled the 500's HD and connected it to 2 different external USB devices and WIN 10/ disk manager, Acronis disk director 12.5 could not see this drive.
The 400 and 500 only cd-roms in them.
I do have several Ethernet PCMCIA cards and the both have slots for them. so I'm think Lap-Link? But only one computer is working?
Should I put a generic win95 on the 400 then lap-link.
If so, what veriosn on Lap-link and where to find a working download?
Is there another better way?
Ideas, suggestions ???
Thanks

 

[GiGaBiTe]

Older IDE drives generally don't work on modern USB to IDE adapters, and especially don't work on modern versions of Windows.

You may try an older system with Windows XP or 98SE/ME, which has better support for older hard drives.

 

[modem7]

Older IDE drives generally don't work on modern USB to IDE adapters ...

Some experimentation of mine is recorded at [here].

 

[KLund1]

Older IDE drives generally don't work on modern USB to IDE adapters, and especially don't work on modern versions of Windows.

You may try an older system with Windows XP or 98SE/ME, which has better support for older hard drives.

Ya, you are probably right. The 2.5" drives that are thicker the 'standard' drives are the ones I have problems with. I'll have to pull out my 'between generations' WIn98se machine and give that a try.
For Win 3.11, Can I just copy the whole drive to a folder on the WIN98se computer. The install DOS 6.22 on a new drive and copy back the win95 files, and win95 will work? Or do I have to use a partition back up program?

Some experimentation of mine is recorded at [here].

Thanks, I use an older USB 2.0 adapter/docks that work well.
All In 1 HDD Docking
If a drive does not fit, I add cables from inside the dock and external power.

 

[seaken]

It's been a while but I think I used some version of Aeomi or Partition Magic with XP. I've also used Clonezilla in Linux.

Just copying over the files won't work to run Windows 95. You need to make an "image" and then "boot" into Win95. Image or Clone the one drive to the other.

Seaken