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Answer» I am looking to recovery 2513 jpeg photos from a very old hard drive. I tried File Scavenger to recover them from my current hard drive to no avail. I just remembered that the photos I want might be on the old 4gb hard drive I used to use. I have the photo files now, but after using a backup utility (Powerquest Drive Image 7) on them, they became corrupted. The 2513 corrupted jpeg photos make up about 940MB. The old 4GB hard drive cam from a Gateway Desktop computer that I bought in 1997. I've since gotten rid of it and replaced it with my HP Pavillion which I bought in 2005. I just realized that I still have the hard drive to the old Gateway. I believe I may have reformatted it when I tried to network my two computers together. I think I may even have changed operating systems, converting Windows 95 to Windows 98. Still, I may have an EASIER time pulling old files off of that hard drive than I did with the HP.
Furthermore, I don't even know if the old picture files were ever even on that hard drive. The hard drive is only 4gb and I probably had at least a gb of photos at the time I got rid of it. I am guessing I would had to have put them on a computer because the memory cards were very small at the time. I just need a way to connect it now. The hard drive is all I had left from the old computer. I got rid of the rest of the computer but was afraid someone would get into PERSONAL info on my hard drive. So I kept the hard drive until I could figure out what to do with it. Now I just need to figure out how I can connect it to my computer as an additional drive so that I can use my current opertaing system and data recovery software to retrieve what's on it. The old hard drive is as follows: Western Digital Caviar 34000 AT Compatible Intelligent Drive Drive Parameters 7752cyl - 16 heads - 63 spt -- 4000.7 MB MDL: AC34000 - 00LA CCC: AA 13 AUG 97 DCM: CLBBJLHOBAMA These are the specs on my current computer which I purchased in 2005: These are the specs of my computer: HP PAVILION 735n Desktop Computer, Windows XP, 2600+ AMD Athlon XP PROCESSOR, 512MB DDR SDRAM memory (2 x 256MB), 80GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive (Partitioned: C: 70.4GB NTFS - where photos should be and D: 4.07 GB FAT32 - system restore files). The question is, how can I connect my old hard drive to my current computer (I also have a HP Pavillion laptop with Windows XP) so that I can attempt to use file scavenger on it.If you have a working computer with an extra IDE interface on the cable you can connect it as a slave drive and copy the images off.
If you don't have an extra IDE interface you can look at something like this.....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156101
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