JBRIII wrote:
My experience has been that older drives >12yrs, maybe much older, that used a square plug (~1/4" with one rounded side?) that plugs into the drive may not work. I have at least two with old work data and neither works. They require drivers that are not available. I think the cable was once used in many printers. The end for the computer is USB, but drives are not plug and play.
So far my older USB drives have been plug-n'-play with Win 11.... Even my old external CD drive.
As for the connector, different physical geometries will not even plug in.....