old hard drive with pics

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I am a novice computer user and I would like to transfer the picture files
that are on a hard drive from my broken (motherboard out of commission)
computer's hard drive to my new pc. I have removed the hard drive from the
old pc and now I need to figure out how to do the rest. The old drive is a
barracuda ATA V 120 gig. The computer I am trying to transfer the files to
has a 300 gig Maxtor 6B300S0 hard drive. The old and new computers both
use/used windows XP as the OS if there is any other syst info needed let me
know.
Thank You for all responses
 
harpo said:
I am a novice computer user and I would like to transfer the picture
files that are on a hard drive from my broken (motherboard out of
commission) computer's hard drive to my new pc. I have removed the
hard drive from the old pc and now I need to figure out how to do the
rest. The old drive is a barracuda ATA V 120 gig. The computer I am
trying to transfer the files to has a 300 gig Maxtor 6B300S0 hard
drive. The old and new computers both use/used windows XP as the OS if
there is any other syst info needed let me know.
Thank You for all responses
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This is very easy. Here is how to slave a hard drive in another machine
in order to copy over its data. We'll call this drive "drive.old" and
the target drive "target.drive". Turn off both computers, and then take
drive.old out of its computer, gently removing the ribbon cable and
power connector. Handle hard drives carefully, and try not to touch any
exposed circuit boards.

Look at drive.old - between the connectors for the ribbon cable and
power is a small section with little pins. There will be a tiny plastic
rectangle covering some of the pins. This is called a "jumper" and is
used to set the drive's status to master, slave, or cable select. The
easiest thing to do is to remove the ribbon cable from the cd drives in
the new computer and connect drive.old to one of the connectors on that
cable. If you do this, you won't need to change the jumpers on
drive.old. Be sure to plug in a power connector to drive.old.

Turn on target.drive's computer. If you've done everything right, then
drive.old will show up in the BIOS and then in Windows. You can then
drag and drop your data from drive.old to the place of your choice on
target.drive. When you are finished, shut down the computer and reverse
your steps. This procedure is actually very easy and doesn't take long
to do.

Malke
 
Sorry I did not read the whole reply, pay no attention to the last
question,and thanks again.
 
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