Strange old looking HDD with BTc

[dkbit98]

You could probably find some cheap USB to SATA/IDE Adapter to connect this old drive to your new computer.
But you should be ready for much slower speeds compared to modern SSD drives, and I am not sure you could boot from that drive without tweaking something in bios settings.

[moneystery]

As people have said, you can get an adapter for it and then check whether it works or not. However, since this is old technology, you need to make sure that you treat it properly, or else you might end up damaging the device. I don't recommend taking it to someone else either, you can ask AI for help and do some research, it's not that difficult I think, compared to entrusting it to someone else where they can find out what's inside and you might lose the Bitcoins you claimed.

[OgNasty]

This thread makes me feel incredibly old. Not just because apparently IDE cables are something that people today don’t even recognize, but I actually have the exact same style hard drive with a burnt fuse that also holds ~0.4 BTC on it. A strange coincidence I guess. One of these days I should fix mine too.

I'm guessing that when a HDD ended up with a burnt fuse the disk won't spin anymore or it won't receive power, that fuse must have blew to protect the drive I bet, what were you doing before that event took place?

It might not be that easy to get it fixed if it's a shorted related outcome, like you breached components together? Hope you understand what I am trying to say, I have 10s of HDD with, some are dead and I have experience with HDD very well.

You will need multimeter to figure out which diodes are dead, this is the very first thing to look out for, avoid going for the fuse as if nothing happened,fuse don't just blew up for no reason on HDDs.

Hope you are good with soldering iron too, good luck

Well, it was back around 2012-2014 I think. I had just received a shipment of ASIC miners and was using every bit of power I could find as minutes were crucial at that point in time (for a very short period, maybe a week, I think I had the highest hashrate of any individual in the world). I connected an ASIC to a power supply that was operating a computer as it had enough spare power to power it. Unfortunately miners back then aren’t what they are now and it caused a bit of an explosion that took out my hard drive. I’ll probably bring it into a shop at some point, but for now I like to pretend that the wallet is a gold mine holding far more BTC than I actually think. It is more fun that way.

[DaveF]

You have not used old PCs unless you had to run a DOS debug  [ -g=c800:5  ] to low level format one of these:





Or ran your own momentary push switch out of the back of your XT to reset it instead of flipping the power switch.

-Dave