Help Please?

[Nasty]

Ok so my dad has this old windows 98 pc with I believe windows 2007 or whatever... Anyway He doesn't want anything but pictures. I have windows 10, if I were to plug the old hard drive in to my PC, could i just take stuff out of it?

[Muz]

By 2007 you mean Vista, you could just search though his profile under /Users/UrDadsName

[Nasty]

Forgot to say, his PCs PSU is shot. Not sure if you understood but I was talking about taking his hard drive out and just plugging it into my PC to browse through the files, Would that work

[Muz]

Forgot to say, his PCs PSU is shot. Not sure if you understood but I was talking about taking his hard drive out and just plugging it into my PC to browse through the files, Would that work

Indeed it would.

[Nasty]

So, to do so, Would I just plug it in, then would I have to assign a letter to it for it to show or what?

[Sankster]

@Nasty should assign a letter automaticly  

[FizzyFantom]

As @Sankster said, Windows will automatically mount the partitions and give them drive letters. You should be able to look at them from "Computer" and read the files off them.

 

You will be looking for one called "Local Disk" or something similar. "Recovery" and "System Reserved" won't be of any interest to you.

In that partition there should be a folder called "Users" in which your user folder will be. You may need to change permissions to access this, but Windows will prompt you if you do.

 

I hope this helps

[Nasty]

Actuallly just took a look, I wont be able to because the "sata" cable in my case is like a 20-30 pin

[FizzyFantom]

Actuallly just took a look, I wont be able to because the "sata" cable in my case is like a 20-30 pin

You mean a PATA (IDE) cable? these are 40-pin ribbon cables used in the old standard of hard drives:

 

Is this in your old PC or you new one?

[Nasty]

Old

[FizzyFantom]

Old

In that case you will need to get hold of a USB to IDE adapter to connect it to your new PC.

 

Alternatively you could boot up the old PC with a Linux LiveCD and transfer the files onto a USB drive. You wouldn't need to buy anything, but you would have to set up a Linux LiveCD or LiveUSB. I suggest Ubuntu for this as its pretty easy to use:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

 

Feel free to ask if you need any more help