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That, plus you didn't show the electrical connectors in your photo.
Given you are talking about a DVD drive and not a hard drive, I suggest just getting an external DVD drive and use it for all your computers. E.g:
https://smile.amazon.com/Dell-DW316-...s%2C295&sr=8-4
one of the first hits on Amazon. But, you can go to your favorite source and get almost anything similar and have it work.
Ah, I missed that post for some reason...yup. That's not a hard drive. It doesn't store anything internally. It only reads and writes DVDs. So if your photos are on DVDs (or CDROMs) you can just get a USB DVD drive to plug into the new machine. If the photos were on the hard drive of your old computer and you disposed of it...they are gone.
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Lets try again LOL Hard Drive.jpgConnector.jpg
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Bert,
I have a Black Box Duet model enclosure made by a company called Thermaltake.
It will handle two SATA drives or two USB drives at a time.
You plug it into your computer via USB cable and slide the hard drive into the enclosure and the drive magically appears.
It's that simple.
From the scale of your hand, I'm pretty sure that's a 3.5" drive. If so, this:
https://smile.amazon.com/AmazonBasic...xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==
should work fine to turn it into an external drive. (Among others, of course.)
OK I'm gonna order one and see if it works thanks for all the help I'll let ya know how I did
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Hey Bert,
The one from your 1st photos which says hitachi deskstar is the one you want.
Since you pulled the drive from the old computer, I'm going to follow with a method which probably doesn't need any of that other stuff listed above, but does require opening the the computer, which you can feel free to ignore if you aren't certain about it:
1st lets pull the side off the new computer, you will see a tiny drive inside mounted near the bottom most likely which will be your new solid state drive most likely, and the dvd drive which will probably allow you easy access to borrow some connectivity. There are 2 cables that go to the drive, the one larger connector which you pictured on the left is the power connector, the smaller one is the data cable. Since we will borrow both this should not matter.
With the computer off, I would borrow the cables from the DVD drive and attach them to the old hard drive.
You should then simply be able to boot the computer, it will likely boot off the new drive, it may ask you some questions, but maybe not, probably along the lines of "System configuration has changed, Press F1 to continue Press DEL to enter setup" you should be able to continue. If it doesnt work, don't change settings and put it back how it was.
Since you are now booted into windows, you should be able to go to your "My Computer" or whatever it is called these days and navigate to your pictures folder on the old hard drive, then copy it to the new one. Then shut down the computer and put it back how you found it.
Good Luck!
Sorry Steven.... but why over complicate things? The OP says he is not computer savy and you want him to try that?... all he needs to do is get a SATA to USB cable like in the picture and he can get anything he wants off of the old drive...
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