[aldoc1]

Hi,
this is my first posting so excuse my ignorance, my old p.c. has crashed and burned, i have photo's stored on my hard drive i wish to retrieve them and store on my new p.c., how can i do this?

[zerocool]

Is it the computer that has had it or is it the hard drive, if the hard drive still works you could connect it to your new computer as a slave and transfer the photos across

[aldoc1]

Am pretty sure the hard drive is ok, so how do i connect it as a slave? again sorry for being so painfully stupid.

[zerocool]

On the back of the drive is a plastic jumper between the power cable and ide ribbon cable, on the hard drive itself will tell you where it should be for it to be a slave and then plug it into your computer the same way it was removed from the old computer but still having the other drive connected, on the ribbon cable going to your existing hard drive to you new computer should be an extra connector and on the power supply a spare power cable, if not take the ones off your cd/dvd drive until you have transfered your photos, power up your computer and it should recognise you have a new drive when windows has booted up. When you have done the transfer remove the drive and replace the cables if taken from the cd/dvd drive