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Posted on 8/16/15 at 8:11 pm to heypaul
You could put the hard drive into an external (USB) hard drive enclosure. If the main computer can't read it, you can use a free program called Recuva to access the data and copy it all to a folder on the new computer. Then you can go to the command prompt to move all the photos to their own folder using wildcards (ie *jpg and *gif). Same for documents (*doc). A duplicate cleaner can erase all the unneeded duplicate files.
Only downside to that method is some programs won't work anymore because they depend on certain files being in the right place.
Only downside to that method is some programs won't work anymore because they depend on certain files being in the right place.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 8:20 pm to heypaul
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The external drive only has the USB cable and no power cord.
The old PC is just a tower.
So unplug the drive from the old machine and plug it into the new one. It's similar to changing socks, and about as complicated.
If your drive is so old that it uses the old PCI cable instead of SATA you'll need an adapter card, which is not very expensive. About $20 or so.
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