Q: Apple II hard drive
I am looking for a way to read an Apple II hard drive on a pc. (Or a Mac, if it's easier)
The drive was purchased from Resource Central and is a:
Quantum Prodrive LPS
105 Mb
SCSI interface
It is formatted w/ Prodos 8
The hd is fine, the enclosure keeps blowing the 2A fuses. That's a problem for another day.
Even if I have to read it at the sector level, I could reconstruct the data.
Thanks for any ideas,
Bill
Apple II, Other OS, Hard drive
Posted on Mar 17, 2015 1:56 PM
You'll want to load the drive in a different SCSI enclosure. ProDOS can have at most 32MB partitions, so it may have a partition map on it with three or four partitions. Once you've got it connected to a PC with a SCSI connection, a tool like CiderPress (http://a2ciderpress.com/) on the PC. A Mac may be able to make a copy of the partitions directly using Disk Utility assuming you have a SCSI interface on the Mac. But a SCSI interface and most likely a new enclosure is going to have to come first. You can also explore commercial services like RetroFloppy to do the extraction for you.
Posted on Mar 30, 2015 6:58 PM