Perhaps I'm missing something obvious in trying to see my photos.
April 10, 2009 5:30 PM Subscribe
I'd like to rescue some data from an external hard drive, but I'm doing it wrong.
Pretend we are discussing advanced astro-physics, and that we are 5 years old. That's sorta where I am with computers.
So, years ago when I upgraded to a new notebook, I had the (amazingly small) memory drive recycled as an external drive.
It has never worked.
Until this week. I had to be shown exactly what to do, twice, and now I've got it.
But my thousands of (really trivial) documents are not accessable. And more poignantly, I can't open many of the photos.
Oh I can see the folders just fine, but when I click on the pretty generic icons, I get a black box with bold red print "Invalid Image".
I'm using Vista on a Dell, the old drive is XP from a Dell, whatever difference that might make (none).
How to reasonably retrieve my photos?
I say reasonably, because I'm not gonna invest to much more time in it tonight.
They pay people to do these things for a reason.
Pretend we are discussing advanced astro-physics, and that we are 5 years old. That's sorta where I am with computers.
So, years ago when I upgraded to a new notebook, I had the (amazingly small) memory drive recycled as an external drive.
It has never worked.
Until this week. I had to be shown exactly what to do, twice, and now I've got it.
But my thousands of (really trivial) documents are not accessable. And more poignantly, I can't open many of the photos.
Oh I can see the folders just fine, but when I click on the pretty generic icons, I get a black box with bold red print "Invalid Image".
I'm using Vista on a Dell, the old drive is XP from a Dell, whatever difference that might make (none).
How to reasonably retrieve my photos?
I say reasonably, because I'm not gonna invest to much more time in it tonight.
They pay people to do these things for a reason.
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But seriously. I did it quite by acident. I tried to open one of the photos by uploading to Picasa.
They all are now there and, well, I rule.
Please feel free to delete mods.
I'm not drunk, it just feels like it
posted by dawson at 5:48 PM on April 10, 2009