Man…the hard drive I have these on is over 20 years old, and it needs an IDE connection to operate. I bought an IDE reader on amazon, and I can get the hard drive to boot up, but I can’t keep it stable more than like a minute at a time. I returned the connector to amazon, and a new one should arrive tomorrow - I’m hoping it’s just the adapter that I bought and not the hard drive being completely destroyed.
I have another backup plan though in case that doesn’t work.