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.
