mbbrutman
Admin.

While we are handing out advice, try not pre-emptively snarking on people who didn't do anything to provoke it.

Hi Al, Maybe he meant he wanted to learn about that specific system and what condition it is in? Please give people the benefit of the doubt.

Let's be realistic - nobody can make a reasonable informed offer based on the provided information. Do you have pictures? What exactly is...

I also looked into 26 pin drives recently, as I thought it would be neat to use two of them in the space that a standard 1/2 height 5.25 inch drive...

Try with a different power supply. A weak power supply will make a hard drive unable to spin up. It will try, and it might even get moving, but...

I've done something like this to image an MFM drive. The contents were sent over the network to a file, which could then be mounted under VirtualBox...