Reddit mentions of SYBA SATA II to IDE PATA ATA133 Bi-Directional Adapter for 2.5" 3.5" HDD SSD CD DVD SD-ADA50016,Black

While IDE-USB bridges should be fine, you may want to consider a IDE-SATA bridge instead, in case the USB bridge is doing something funky.

In my previous job I used IDE-SATA Bi-Directional Adapters to retrofit old systems with SATA SSDs, as well as provide a way of cloning the IDE drives on a dedicated imaging station that didnt have IDE ports. I was only working with drives larger than 1GB though.

Showing up at 2.2TB usually means something is funky and the sector count has wrapped exactly at the 2TB 32bit LBA limit, whcih shouldnt happen(may mean the USB bridge is doing something weird).

I would be curious to see the output of the following commands:

hexdump -C -n 512 /dev/IDE_HDD
fdisk -l /dev/IDE_HDD
lsblk /dev/IDE_HDD --output-all --json

Ignoring the reported geometry entirely, if you dd to an img and it stops at 170MB, try dd to one of the replacement drives and see if that works.


Edit:
I was curious an looked into this further.

1. The USB adapter will probably never work.
   
2. The SATA to IDE adapter may or may not work (but its $10, so well worth trying).
   
3. The only guaranteed method is to get a motherboard old enough and featured enough to support CHS settings, but new enough to run a useful OS. (Pentium 3 with and AWARD bios looks like a good candidate).
   
   Number 2 is the route I would pursue, even though in the BIOS the IDE-SATA bridged drive may be wrong, Linux does its own hardware detection and should properly read/write to the drive.
   
   That said, you may have issues booting the CF card in the 386, but here is a thread about making that work (Utility to get CHS of the card, you can then put that in the BIOS).
   
   You would then need to install DOS on the CF card, then copy all the files from the HDD. Once you do that, just have a few spare 256MB CF cards and just dd image them.
   
   It may also be that a dd clone of the original disk will lay down disk geometry that just works, with you only showing 170MB of disk space on a 256MB card.

Thanks! I just want to transfer the files, but I don't mind putting it inside my pc while it transfers.

Would something like this also work? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OEBO6E?pf_rd_p=b4b36b89-db1d-45ae-9084-4fd14a329395&pf_rd_r=51MRWE2KAWK9TW1EQVJ1

It's only 10 bucks.

I wouldn't call those DVD drives expensive. Here's one I bought for $24 and it worked great. You might need an IDE <-> SATA adapter though.

Maybe something like this? Has decent reviews, though I've never used one.

You will need to reinstall windows and drivers on the new SATA drive if you want to use it as your primary boot device on your old mobo. I would recommend that you use that drive on your new motherboard, boot from it (as it's already configured forthe new system).

You can connect your old IDE HDD to the new system by using this IDE to SATA converter.

There are adapters, and there are these little things you can buy that allow you to copy the contents of an IDE drive to SATA

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/SYBA-ATA133-Bi-Directional-Adapter-SD-ADA50016/dp/B002OEBO6E/ref=sr_1_6?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1496430917&sr=1-6&keywords=ide+to+sata

or this:

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Bi-Directional-Adapter-Converter-PATA2SATA3/dp/B00310MFPY/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1496430980&sr=1-5&keywords=ide+to+sata+co

I dont know how well they work, but if you just search around for "IDE to SATA" you can probably find something that will work for you.

Found this adapter to make the drive register as SATA

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002OEBO6E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_arjBCbZEZ2FNS