Anyone have experience using old tape drives (the ones that use the floppy controller) in an XP machine?

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I've got some old drive backups on 120M mini data cartridges, and the old drives too. I'd like to get the data off of them, but I'm not sure if they'd work in an XP machine. Anyone have any experience in this? Thanks in advance.

 

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It really depends on the drive model and whether or not a WinXP version of the software's been written to support it... but I doubt it. I think I read that native tape streaming support for floppy interface was removed from Win2K (and subsequently, WinXP) so unless the manufacturer is providing direct support, you might be out of luck on a Win2K or later platform. An exception was that HP offered a Win2k compatible Colorado Backup for an old T1000 drive I used to have.

Worst case scenario: you keelhaul your neighbor and hijack their Win9x machine to do a data dump.

 

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Originally posted by: tenchim
It really depends on the drive model and whether or not a WinXP version of the software's been written to support it... but I doubt it. I think I read that native tape streaming support for floppy interface was removed from Win2K (and subsequently, WinXP) so unless the manufacturer is providing direct support, you might be out of luck on a Win2K or later platform. An exception was that HP offered a Win2k compatible Colorado Backup for an old T1000 drive I used to have.

Worst case scenario: you keelhaul your neighbor and hijack their Win9x machine to do a data dump.

I was thinking that.... I might have to haul out my old 486, it had Windows 95 on it, but I haven't booted that thing since 1999. Thanks for the help.