We a have a client with, believe it or not, a circa 1993 NOTESTAR 925 MS DOS machine. As the usual story goes, the floppy drive is broken (no other drives on the machine), the charger is inop and the battery is dead. Prior to learning that the unit had a broken charger and dead battery, our plan was to use DOS laplink 5 via the serial port to get the files off. Now that is not possible due to the dead battery and no way to charge it.
So our next thought was to remove the drive (a Toshiba 80MB MK2024FC – IDE / AT )with DOS and all the system files on it. Then, put the drive into an enclosure for an IDE device with a USB interface and attempt to read the drive under Windows or Linux. We think the NOTESTAR was running version 6 or so of DOS and that the drive is most likely FAT16 (not sure 100%).
Will this work hardware and software wise and what are some other thoughts as to how to get the data off?
