Laptop has died

[gronk]

Might be under a user profile folder...

Try just searching for *.jpg on that drive and see what comes up...


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Tried that...came up with a heap of images....mainly different colours etc...maybe background effects or something ?

[paceman]

have you run a check on the harddrive itself? is it full of bad sectors?

where exactly are you looking?

+1...

I would checking if the drive itself is still ok... may be the cause of the laptop issues...


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[gronk]

have you run a check on the harddrive itself? is it full of bad sectors?

where exactly are you looking?

Ha ha..don't get too technical mate....I hooked it up with an adaptor cable, the hard drive is spinning, it comes up as local disk (F) and shows a few folders on the screen....that's about my ability gone there !!

[gronk]

+1...

I would checking if the drive itself is still ok... may be the cause of the laptop issues...


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The laptop fell from a great height and smashed itself up a bit.....the hard drive spins and comes up as previous post....and I can open the folders that are shown, but no pic folder ?

[D4D]

Assuming Win10 and you saved your pics to your profile pictures folder.

Can you see a 'users' folder under the root folder?
If so go into that and see if there is a folder with your username.
If so go into that and you should see a 'pictures' folder.
That folder should have your pictures.

[gronk]

Assuming Win10 and you saved your pics to your profile pictures folder.

Can you see a 'users' folder under the root folder?
If so go into that and see if there is a folder with your username.
If so go into that and you should see a 'pictures' folder.
That folder should have your pictures.

My old smashed laptop was win7 and I have plugged the hard drive into my newer laptop win10 !
I have a users folder...just trying to access the "owner" part of it.

[Bird]

so go to F drive
users
your username
then see pcitures folder in there if not you maybe in poo

edit: also this shouldnt make a difference but it may - select SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS.

[gronk]

I've got F drive..I've got a users folder, but not my username ??

[D4D]

I've got F drive..I've got a users folder, but not my username ??

What folders are in there?

[Bird]

What folders are in there?

x2

post up a screen shot of what you see.

[gronk]

You're a genius Bird...show hidden files and the pictures and a few other folders appeared ..

Thanks very much.

I will now backup the 2 yrs of pics that I didn't add to the hard drive I have all the other pics on. When I do that, can I format this "old" hard drive and use it for a 2nd backup ??

[Bird]

You're a genius Bird...show hidden files and the pictures and a few other folders appeared ..

Thanks very much.

I will now backup the 2 yrs of pics that I didn't add to the hard drive I have all the other pics on. When I do that, can I format this "old" hard drive and use it for a 2nd backup ??

kewlies... it worked thats all that matters

FWIW - you should look into some online backup like amazon - costs a schooner to upload and never have a worry again

[D4D]

You're a genius Bird...show hidden files and the pictures and a few other folders appeared ..

Thanks very much.

I will now backup the 2 yrs of pics that I didn't add to the hard drive I have all the other pics on. When I do that, can I format this "old" hard drive and use it for a 2nd backup ??

The old hidden files attribute gotcha

I wouldn't backup to spinning rust. As Bird says store it in the 'cloud', try OneDrive on your Win10 if you want the most user friendly option.

[gronk]

The old hidden files attribute gotcha

I wouldn't backup to spinning rust. As Bird says store it in the 'cloud', try OneDrive on your Win10 if you want the most user friendly option.

I have 100Gb of pics...one drive only let you have 5Gb..

[Bird]

I have 100Gb of pics...one drive only let you have 5Gb..

https://au.pcmag.com/file-syncing-and-backup-1/9603/the-best-online-backup-services-for-2020

[D4D]

I have 100Gb of pics...one drive only let you have 5Gb..

OneDrive for 100Gb is $3/month
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/onedrive/compare-onedrive-plans

[gronk]

What...pay money to store photos    Against my religion...

If I store them on 2 seperate hard drives...plus the laptop....I should be alright ??   

[D4D]

What...pay money to store photos    Against my religion...

If I store them on 2 seperate hard drives...plus the laptop....I should be alright ??   

Small price to pay for an offsite backup. How much are your photos worth to you?

[gronk]

Small price to pay for an offsite backup. How much are your photos worth to you?

Ha ha....2 hard drives compared to one big one in USA somewhere. How safe or secure are cloud hard drives ??

[paceman]

Ha ha....2 hard drives compared to one big one in USA somewhere. How safe or secure are cloud hard drives ??

So, happy to trust a non-trustworthy drive, instead of a safe and secure cloud storage solution?

Good luck with that.

I'd trust OneDrive storage over any hardware drive, particularly a mechanical HDD...

Standard methods for back ups should be two separate local, onsite copies and one separate offsite copy.

Photos are not something to skimp on storage with... can never get them back.


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[Bird]

Ha ha....2 hard drives compared to one big one in USA somewhere. How safe or secure are cloud hard drives ??

Thats 1982 thinking right there... they arent using 40meg drives anymore.
why you think all business are using cloud storage these days

[D4D]

Ha ha....2 hard drives compared to one big one in USA somewhere. How safe or secure are cloud hard drives ??

It's actually a logical not a physical drive. There are many layers of redundancy built into the system, it's not just one copy.

[lloydus67]

Ha ha....2 hard drives compared to one big one in USA somewhere. How safe or secure are cloud hard drives ??

Chances of 2 drives Fukien up on same day, slim, unless say your house burns down in a bushfire or something dramatic like that.
How safe or secure are clouds. Unless you are worried that your explicit photos are able to be viewed by some 3rd party? It's more about you being able to one day access those valuable memories should the worst happen to your other copies


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[paceman]

Chances of 2 drives Fukien up on same day, slim, unless say your house burns down in a bushfire or something dramatic like that.
How safe or secure are clouds. Unless you are worried that your explicit photos are able to be viewed by some 3rd party? It's more about you being able to one day access those valuable memories should the worst happen to your other copies


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Slim, yes... but plenty of things can knock out two local drives at once...

Power spikes or sudden blackouts
Drives bought from the same faulty batch
Buggy automatic firmware upgrades
Computer being bumped
Insect or rodent issues
Software issues on NAS or PC where they are installed
Malware locking access to drives

For a very small outlay, why take the risk... ?

Storage is cheap nowadays.  I would be gutted if I lost all my photos because I was a tightarse or wore my tin foil hat too tightly.


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[D4D]

How safe or secure are clouds. Unless you are worried that your explicit photos are able to be viewed by some 3rd party?

Cloud storage is typically encrypted at rest with a user key that only you know to prevent 3rd party access. Data is also striped across many physical drives so impossible for somebody to 'walk out' of the datacenter with the drive of your 'personal' pics.