External cases for internal IDE drives; LiveCDs

[James Knott]

moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with external cases
> (USB or parallel port) for internal IDE drives?  I
> need one to work with quite an old drive (4GB).  It
> came with a Dell machine; I know Dell sometimes has
> some incompatibilities.  Will that make a difference?

I recently bought an Adaptec case, from Factory Direct, for $20.  It 
works well.
>
> I'd appreciate pointers to any brands that have worked
> for you.
>
> On another note, can anyone recommend a bootable Linux CD
> (Live CD or some such) that will work on quite an old
> machine (128 MB RAM) and has NTFS support? 

You might try a Linux Rescue CD.  I also used one of those, to copy data 
from a crashed XP system.

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