Connecting an SCSI drive to windows 7

X82 · 13 Jun 2012 at 14:59

I have an old 2GB scsi drive which came out of an old apple. I was hoping to connect it up to my pc to retrieve the images that are on the drive.

I bought myself a HP QLOGIC PCI SCSI CONTROLLER CARD P/N: KZPBA-CX and a cable to connect the drive.

When all connected to my pc and just after post, my bios asks me to auto configure the scsi devices which it does. It shows me the drive as 2gb and gives me the option of formatting etc.

So I save, exit and load windows. As expected windows 7 cannot find any driver for it, and searching on the internet yeilds no results either as I'm running Win 7 x64.

So my question, is there anyway, even in dos or something, that I can access this drive and copy over all data to my pc?

Buttkicker · 14 Jun 2012 at 08:02

I would be interested to see the responses to this post as I have 5 Scsi drives sat here on the shelf with files I would like to access

X82 · 14 Jun 2012 at 21:57

Pulling my hair out.

I managed to find (I think) a driver for it. But every time I try to install, the following appears.

Here is some extra information if required.

I'm really stuck here. My options seem limited.
I can either: Buy a really old PC with a SCSI card and ready to go.
Install Windows 95 and takes my chances with that.
Buy another scsi card, this time with the drivers included.
Give up.

mnet674 · 15 Jun 2012 at 16:24

Could be worth trying a linux LiveCD of some sort?

Hagar · 15 Jun 2012 at 16:53

Create a virtual XP or win98/2000 machine using VMware or virtual box. Have a shared folder with the host machine.

X82 · 15 Jun 2012 at 18:47

I thought I would post an update.
99% of the time on this project was to find drivers to work with the card. And I never found any that worked, at least with Win 7.

So I found yet another pci card, this time I checked and there was official drivers on the website. I will try this new card when it arrives and report back. Hopefully, no more issues with drivers.

X82 · 18 Jun 2012 at 10:45

Got the new PCI SCSI card today and it works perfectly. Now I've hit another snag, the drive itself.

I use macdrive to read it, it shows it has 283mb free out of 2gb. But when I try to mount it, macdrive days it need repairing. When I try, it always gets stuck on "Checking Catalog file".

I'm so close to the files. Any ideas?