Windows Help

[Forzahibs]

Can anyone help with this ?
I have an external drive with photos on it i used with my Vista laptop . If i plug it into a machine running Windows 7 or 8 i can't open it (says it must be formatted) How can i transfer my pics to my new laptop ?

 

[Beagle]

Would it not be an idea to save your stuff to a cloud server? If your hard drive crashes, you'll lose the lot otherwise

 

[Forzahibs]

Would it not be an idea to save your stuff to a cloud server? If your hard drive crashes, you'll lose the lot otherwise

I currently dont have a computer i can access the external drive with , that's the problem . I've yet to replace the screen after that fatefull trip to Ross County lol

 

[SirRiordan]

Can anyone help with this ? I have an external drive with photos on it i used with my Vista laptop . If i plug it into a machine running Windows 7 or 8 i can't open it (says it must be formatted) How can i transfer my pics to my new laptop ?

Sounds like your ext hd might be fooked. My girlfriends vista laptop broke but was able to plug her sata internal hd into my win7 pc so can't be compatibility...

 

[Forzahibs]

Sounds like your ext hd might be fooked. My girlfriends vista laptop broke but was able to plug her sata internal hd into my win7 pc so can't be compatibility...

I've downloaded a bit of software i'm hopeful will work , need to wait till tomorrow now though .
Thanks for the suggestions all

 

[timberfox]

i thought if you went ahead and just formatted it , that a windows folder with all the things you have just now is saved ,IE like your photos much as when you format a normal PC then you just open saved folder and move your photo's out as you wish

 

[OB1875]

i thought if you went ahead and just formatted it , that a windows folder with all the things you have just now is saved ,IE like your photos much as when you format a normal PC then you just open saved folder and move your photo's out as you wish

I don't follow you here? Format means all information is wiped.

 

[timberfox]

I don't follow you here? Format means all information is wiped.

Just ignore me then sorry

 

[Forzahibs]

For some reason the drive had lost the partition but managed to recover all of the photos . Took a while though