I salved the hard drive from my ancient and dead Performa 630 (aka LC 630). This is an IDE drive and i purchased an IDE-USB adapter.
The drive connects so that i can see it in Disk Utility, but cannot mount; i can only assume this is a filesystem problem. The filesystem is reported as 'Mac OS Standard' by Disk Utility.
Is there any way i can mount this old IDE drive?
Would it be correct to assume that you wish to just read old files from the Mac OS Standard IDE drive (that is, you do not want to reformat the hard disk)?
Are you using one of the latest system software versions? If so, any chance of testing the USB-to-IDE adapter with a Mac running an OS earlier than 10.12 instead?
Otherwise, if possible, you may want to try connecting the USB-to-IDE adapter to a PC. In this case, a Mac-disk utility for Windows (such as an appropriate version of MacDrive, MacDisk or TransMac, capable of reading plain HFS = Mac OS Standard) will be needed. Alternatively, Linux distributions can typically handle HFS (with or without the need for extra packages).
Would it be correct to assume that you wish to just read old files from the Mac OS Standard IDE drive (that is, you do not want to reformat the hard disk)?
Are you using one of the latest system software versions? If so, any chance of testing the USB-to-IDE adapter with a Mac running an OS earlier than 10.12 instead?
Otherwise, if possible, you may want to try connecting the USB-to-IDE adapter to a PC. In this case, a Mac-disk utility for Windows (such as an appropriate version of MacDrive, MacDisk or TransMac, capable of reading plain HFS = Mac OS Standard) will be needed. Alternatively, Linux distributions can typically handle HFS (with or without the need for extra packages).
You may have to look into an approach using IDE/ATA technologies because
the 'bridge too far' from the older IDE to USB is not very likely; an enclosure
and some adapters may be feasible. Been quite some time since I'd used my
IDE or ATA Macs; & only have left now, later model PowerMac w/ MacOS8.6.
Good luck & happy trails!🌞
You will need to format the drive into something the Mac can now read.
Mac OS Standard is the original HFS file system format (before HFS+) and is over 20 years old.
macOS Catalina cannot read it.
See here: Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
Salvage old IDE drive
