On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Chris G.<thoth.serath at gmail.com> wrote: > i am trying to get information off of an old hard drive out of a 286 > computer. it is a few megabytes big. Some leading questions that may help you get help on this: Is the drive still mechanically functional and the data corrupted, or the data intact but the drive broken? What physical form factor / style of drive? Do you know the filesystem the data was stored in? Tony Yarusso http://tonyyarusso.com/