Old laptop hard drive

[SHG_Marsh]

I just took out a Toshiba HDD2D33 Hard drive from my parents laptop. This hard drive was in an old laptop that died and my parents wanted to see if I could take the pictures off of the hard drive. When I hooked up the hard drive, nothing would happen. I thought it was because This hard drive had windows 7 on and my ssd had windows 10. So I disconnected my ssd so that the laptop hard drive was the only connected drive. I put the hard drive first for boost priority but still nothing happened.

[Crunchy Dragon]

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Is your system compatible with Windows 7? Does the hard drive show up in Disk Management in Windows 10?

[SHG_Marsh]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

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Is your system compatible with Windows 7? Does the hard drive show up in Disk Management in Windows 10?

When i go into my bios the drive does show up but it seems like the drive just won't load. There is another connection on the hard drive i didn't connect. Its a 4 pin male connector on the drive. I did hook up power and sata

[TheFalcro]

6 minutes ago, SHG_Marsh said:

When i go into my bios the drive does show up but it seems like the drive just won't load. There is another connection on the hard drive i didn't connect. Its a 4 pin male connector on the drive. I did hook up power and sata

Can you provide some pictures of this 4 pin connector and possibly some screen shots of what you are seeing in both device manager and in Windows Explorer. Sometimes a third party program can look at and see a drive more easily than windows, (graphically speaking) I use the free version of AOMEI Partition wizard to look at drives sometimes when Windows 10 does not want to play nice.  This is not a freeware/shareware program and should be compatible with any version of Windows released in the last 20ish years, they (AOMEI) just supply the basic version for free. It has some decent tools on there as well. 

[SHG_Marsh]

Just now, TheFalcro said:

Can you provide some pictures of this 4 pin connector and possibly some screen shots of what you are seeing in both device manager and in Windows Explorer. Sometimes a third party program can look at and see a drive more easily than windows, (graphically speaking) I use the free version of AOMEI Partition wizard to look at drives sometimes when Windows 10 does not want to play nice.  This is not a freeware/shareware program and should be compatible with any version of Windows released in the last 20ish years, they (AOMEI) just supply the basic version for free. It has some decent tools on there as well. 

[TheFalcro]

those are jumpers to make the drive behave differently. On your dirve I am not sure what they do but a search on Toshiba's website should give you the info for that