I feel like jbear

I lost the hard drive in my computer on Wednesday. I really can't complain since it was 15 years old. It's telling me to reload all the discs that came with it. That would be easy but my disc drive won't eject! My only issue are the pictures on it. At least the important ones are on photobucket. I'll need to go and buy a new computer and see if they can retrieve anything off the hard drive. Next time I'm down in Florida, I'll have to take some computer lessons from John!

Try F-12

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Dreaming is correct. you may be able to power up the old HDD and retrieve your old files. I'd pick up a new external HDD (they're cheap nowadays <$100) when you buy your new PC and use it for backing up photos and important items.

I'm curious to know how small that drive was if it's 15 years old.

Waterdog wrote: Try F-12

This sounds serious, might be time for F-24.

Good one Adam

Pete there is a good chance you can retrieve the information off the hard drive.

The two simplest ways are:-

1. Remove the old hard drive from computer case, hopefully it is SATA interface drive and not the old IDE interface. You can then install this drive into a working computer (Vista, Win7 or Win8 operating system) You may have to change the permission on some of the files before you can copy them.

2. Remove the old hard drive from computer case and install it in a external USB hard disk case you can then connect it to working computer via USB and access files.

my old Dell 4550 is humming along just fine. My guy here just put Windows 7 Professional in it. Every once in awhile I gotta hit F12 but other than that it is fine..

now if I can just get HW to show me again how to scan pics when he is here at the Holidays..


john



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