My last computer has been sitting in my garage for the last 2 years or so. The motherboard fried and it will no longer turn on. I don't really care about getting the thing working again, but I do care about getting all of the music, pictures and imported VIDEO clips off of my hard drives and burned on to discs. Obviously, I did not have it all backed up. So, my questions is this: I have a laptop now. I want to take the hard drives (there are two of them in my old computer) and get the data off of them. How do I go about doing this? My old computer ran on Win Prof 2000. I had two 40G HD's, one of them was partioned and the other was just used for data storage only... but I have data that'd I'd like from both HD's. I can't think of what else to say. If I could even be steered to a How To book or something that put me on the right track, I'd APPRECIATE it. I can always replace the music I suppose, but I had a BOAT load of pictures and video clips from trips with friends that if I can't get off of the HD's I will have lost them forever.

Ok, well...even if you can't help me, I appreciate the time you spent reading this.

Thanks-A laptop seems a long way around the SOLUTION. How about comandeering a friend with a desktop with a CDRW drive, slave the drives one at a time on his machine and burning to CD all that you need? A simple solution. DVD's could be used if the technology is there as well. How about an external hard drive CASE with USB interface?
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