ok here goes again.
sorted my pc out thanks to you guys last night, now the next episode needs sorting out 
my other half has a very dead pc which won't do a bloody thing, not too bothered as it's had it's day anyway BUT there's hundreds
of pictures of the little 'un on there from when she was a baby that we don't just want lost. can i plug her hard disk in to my pc and read
the drive to take the pictures off it or is it not as simple as plug it in and watch it go?
thanks again in advance for any help
john
So long as the disk isn't dead you should be able to just plug it in and use it.
I put my old disks in USB caddys and use them for backups, DVDs no longer being big enough to use sensibly.
I turned an old hd drive into an external hd too
If we assume the hard disk is OK best way to do it if you are not used to poking around inside PCs is to buy an (bare bones) external USB 3.5"
disk case from Maplin, or your local computer shop m or off Ebay and use that.
Afterwards you will be left with a working external drive for keeping second copies (NB not true backups).
Other wise you can open up the case on your and connect it to the second hard disk controller in place of the DVD/CD Drive but it can be more
complicate.
Once you get them on to the other PCs hard disk I would suggest you use Picasa or similar to create a CD/DVD with the pictures on it as backup.
Picasa is 100% free from Google.
thanks for that folks. i'm not too scared about poking around in pc's i've already got the drive out sitting here on the desk but
didn't want to go doing anything silly so thought it best to ask
Don't forget to jumper up second drive as slave or it won't boot!
You can keep it jumpered as a master if it is on a second IDE port. I bought an IDE to usb converter which makes things really simple - no need for an external case.
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Originally posted by Dickyboy
Don't forget to jumper up second drive as slave or it won't boot!