Trying to retrieve photos.

[Toadman]

Hello, I am trying to retrieve photos from an old hard drive out of a Compaq tower. I have an Inatech hard drive case. I did this once when I purchased software to retrieve photos, it worked but I got a LOT of "junk" along with photos. Now my software is expired and I would like to know why I can't just access the photos by going to "this pc" and selecting the drive, this doesn't work. I'm not that computer savy so please explain in simple terms if possible. I'm using a Dell 15-3567 laptop. Thanks.

 

[voyagerfan99]

why I can't just access the photos by going to "this pc" and selecting the drive, this doesn't work.

You can. Why do you think you can't?

 

[Toadman]

From "this pc" I see presario rp (E), and presario (F). When you click on E it shows "recovery" , then "this file is empty". When you click on F , there's a bunch of files but nothing but old remnants of useless stuff. Where are photos located?

 

[johnb35]

You'll need to take ownership of the files/folders that are under user accounts. Do you see a user's folder on that drive?

 

[Toadman]

Thanks for the reply. I believe that's under "F". ? But I don't see user on anything. Including "E".

 

[Toadman]

You'll need to take ownership of the files/folders that are under user accounts. Do you see a user's folder on that drive?

Ok, I did find "all users".

 

[voyagerfan99]

Ok, I did find "all users".

That's a shared folder. Sounds like you're looking through an old Windows XP drive. You will be looking under C:\Documents and Settings\Username

 

[Toadman]

That's a shared folder. Sounds like you're looking through an old Windows XP drive. You will be looking under C:\Documents and Settings\Username

Yes, it's an old XP drive, it's probably 19-20 years old. I will look for that, thank you.

 

[Toadman]

That's a shared folder. Sounds like you're looking through an old Windows XP drive. You will be looking under C:\Documents and Settings\Username

This is what I have to work with:

 

[johnb35]

Yes as voyagerfan has said, since its an XP drive you'll need to look in the directory he listed. You want drive F as Drive E is the recovery partition.

 

[Toadman]

I will try, thank you all.