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About 2 years ago my HP Pavillion DV7 started getting sickly (not starting every time I tried to boot it up). I had an external hard drive so I backed up all my pictures and documents to that. HP dies (motherboard problem according to what I was able to determine). About a month later, the external hard drive usb connection port comes loose and falls out inside the external hard drive. I put all of the equipment in a box and stuck it in a closet figuring I'd deal with it later.
Well, it's later. There is a set of pictures on that hard drive that I really need access to again. Not to mention all the pics of my daughter's first trip to Disney and first day of school etc. You know, the cute years, before they hate their parents. I have some from sharing the albums on snapfish etc. but not all.
I bought a external hard drive reader for the HP SATA drive and it came today. Pulled the HD from the HP laptop and inserted it in the reader and plugged it all into my current laptop (a Dell). I can see the drive and the users file with my name on it but when I clicked on the pictures folder it said it was empty. The properties says the folder has 32 GB of files which would be about right since they are all jpegs from my old D60. Is this a HP/Dell incompatibility thing? Is it a Windows 7/Windows 8 thing?
To make matters worse, in all my messing around trying to find the pictures, I somehow have "hidden" the Pictures folder from that drive and now can't get it back.
Well, it's later. There is a set of pictures on that hard drive that I really need access to again. Not to mention all the pics of my daughter's first trip to Disney and first day of school etc. You know, the cute years, before they hate their parents. I have some from sharing the albums on snapfish etc. but not all.
I bought a external hard drive reader for the HP SATA drive and it came today. Pulled the HD from the HP laptop and inserted it in the reader and plugged it all into my current laptop (a Dell). I can see the drive and the users file with my name on it but when I clicked on the pictures folder it said it was empty. The properties says the folder has 32 GB of files which would be about right since they are all jpegs from my old D60. Is this a HP/Dell incompatibility thing? Is it a Windows 7/Windows 8 thing?
To make matters worse, in all my messing around trying to find the pictures, I somehow have "hidden" the Pictures folder from that drive and now can't get it back.