[jcpham2]

A hard drive from 1995 will most likely be formatted FAT16/or FAT32 and the last Windows OS that reads that filesystem by default is Windows XP - I keep an old XP workstation operational as a test rig for reading data on old hard drives.

Or I have to mount them in another OS that isn't Windows. It's more than just adjusting DAW settings and updating plugins at this point you need to know that around 2000 the filesystems completely changed with NTFS and added security that wasn't present before.

By the time Vista/7 FAT hard drive support is gone from Microsoft land. There are of course add-ons and such but you still need to _know_ this happened and FAT drives look unformatted in modern Windows.

[iamtedd]

What are you talking about? I'm able to create and read FAT-formatted USB drives today on Windows 11.

In fact, Microsoft is adding features to Windows' FAT driver: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-re...