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- Floppy drives
- Zip disk drives
- Jaz disk drives
- Optical disc drives
- Memory card readers
- Data tape drives
- Hard drives and storage devices
- Computers
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If you encounter an entire computer or laptop, consider consulting with the digital archivist about your best course of action. There are a few options:
If the computer could connect to the internet and is a modern operating system, install the appropriate software on the computer in question and follow the imaging section below.
Remove the hard drive from the computer and connect it to a processing computer, following the steps above for the relevant hard drive above.
Turn the computer on and connect it via its external ports to the processing computer and transfer the files following the appropriate imaging section below. Some computers have a specific transfer mode, such as Target Disk Mode for Macs.