IDE to USB: transferring data from old HDD excruciatingly S-L-O-W

[mitaux8030]

Got an old IDE HDD, a Fujitsu MPA3026AT that I want to get photos etc. from. Using an IDE to USB converter from Jaycar, a Simplecom SA391 and pulling all the data from it to my PCs local HDD. Transfer rate is incredibly slow... about 1kb per second. It's taken near 96 hours to transfer 258Mb! PC is running Win7. Old HDD was running under W98, so maybe different FAT formats.
Anything I can do to speed up the process, as I have more directories to pull from the old HDD? TIA.

[SS Dave]

How full is the drive?

I had a Sata 800gig go super slow copying the data that was needed mostly Photo's,Music and text.

Even with the drive in a win10 via Sata it bogged down the PC.

The drive was 90% full as i deleted stuff it speed up.

SS Dave

[DB44]

See if you can image the old drive to a file and copy your files from the image. If its that old a drive it probably isn't that big. Also, there may be an impending hardware failure if it is that slow.

[Philquad]

a old motherboard with a ide connector would be the go
start pulling the sides off your computers to see if you have one?

or try 1 of these,

[enf]

Something like this??

[tristen]

Something like this??

That appears to be for SATA drives only.

The OP stated that his HDD is an IDE not SATA.

[mandc]

That appears to be for SATA drives only.

The OP stated that his HDD is an IDE not SATA.

No mate..check it out and you see its got 2 x SATA sockets and an IDE socket

[enf]

Something like this??

I don't have one, but I have something similar. It's the offline backup/cloning thats intriguing....