Metropol

Laplink still very much exist and still deal in data transfer. Nice to see that even when searching for help, cdd can remain a helpful constant by which to measure wrong.

What I don't understand is, how come you didn't notice the difference in spec earlier?

If you'd kept the controller card, the chances are you'd have been able to transplant it into a much newer PC and get the drive working on that.

If you'd had one with dual IDE ports (i.e. four supported devices) you'd probably have been able to switch the primary off, put the card in and the BIOS would have recognised it -- the software used to control ST506 and IDE were very similar.

You'd doubtless have had a few hair-pulling hours ironing out weird resource conflicts but that's a minor issue.

And yes, Laplink is a (slow) method of dragging files from one PC to another. You'd still need the cable though.

Was the original PC an XT or an AT?

You must be new here. Cdd is wrong. It's all you need to know.