RayCox

Sorry about my temporary disappearance. I had to leave for a 3 day conference over the weekend and didn't give myself the luxury of online contact during that time, not to mention the lack of time to try your suggestions. I will attempt to catch everyone up with my experience with the useful suggestions: HTH - I appreciate your recommendation of Winhex. I did have to purchase it, as the free/trial version would not transfer over 200K or some such limit, but it was the first piece of software that I had been able to find (been working on this problem for about a month now) that would actually access and find anything on the disk. Although it would not show individual files or anything really useful above the hex level, I was able to make an image file with it of the complete disk. This gave me confidence to try other things, as I now had a backup of everything on the disk in case I made the wrong move in my attempts to extract. This is a very interesting and capable piece of software for the price if one is having any kind of problems with a HD and needs to try to save what is on there. Space Invader - Your suggestion to try the Drive Image program was the answer! I had tried GEM Explorer, and it was great for transferring files from even Atari-formatted floppies, but it wouldn't touch the Syquest drive/HD combination. It is advertised as being able to recognize Atari SCSI hard drives, but I suspect it was being fooled by the USB converter I am using, and didn't "see" any SCSI devices. I wrote to the author of GEM Explorer for suggestions on getting around my theory of the problem, but no response as of now. Drive Image had no problem with the disk image file which I had already extracted. It showed 7 partitions, 99 directories, and over 2500 files, all of which I successfully extracted (with much help from the "Select All" feature, which would allow a one-step extraction of a complete partition with all directories and files intact in their original trees and configurations. I greatly appreciate the offers of Ken, Dragonstomper, and maybe others who offered the use of their EZ135 drives to extract the files. That is obviously not necessary now. I had considered that option as choice #3 or 4 as I researched ways to get the files, but was very uneasy about letting loose of the only copies of the files that I had without any kind of backup. Anyway...the Atari data is moving forward to a new platform and hopefully won't get caught in obsolecense again. Thanks again for your willingness to help. Ray

Hope this isn't off topic, but I need help with the following problem. I have a Syquest EZ135 drive and cartridge which was used for many years with a 1040 ST. Now the Atari is dead and I need to get the files off of the Syquest cartridge and onto a Windows PC. I have hooked the Syquest to a Windows PC using a USB2SCSI converter. Windows sees the converter and the EZ135 drive, but obviously can't see the files and always wants to reformat the disk since it doesn't recognize that there is data on it. There are many programs out there which do an admirable job of reading Atari formatted floppies and converting them to disk images or even copying them over to a Windows based system, but after trying about everything I could find online, none of them will recognize that the Syquest and cartridge are Atari formatted media. If anyone has found a program which will recognize an Atari formatted removable HD cartridge as in this situation or has any suggestions on how I can get the files from the cartridge to the Windows computer, I would appreciate hearing your ideas or experiences. Thanks, Ray