Hi. How can I get my jpeg files from an old XP drive. I havee the
drive attached to my desktop and I can see in my computer window , but
when I am searching for jpeg or mpeg files , there is nothing. I
forgot to say , the old drive is my laptop's hard drive that i cant
use it because the motherboard is broken.
Anybody knows what should i do?
Thanks

If the drive is operational then purchase a 2.5 USB drive enclosure. 
Insert the drive into the enclosure then connect the USB into your
other system.  You should be able to access the contents of the drive.

I did it, but can't find any jpeg file. I have about 6GB of jpeg and
it shows in properties that my drive has them but i cant find them,
and i am sure that the drive is working.It should be something that
let me know goes to my music and my picture files, but how? I dont
know.

From the Start Menu goto the Run Option.
In the Box type: cmd

at the command prompt choose the root drive letter for the drive you
wish to search (i.e. C:\ D:\ E:\) by simply typing that letter
followed by a : and \.
For instance E:\

after choosing the drive, type: dir *.jpg /s
this command will search all of the sub directories under the root
drive if nothing is returned to you type dir /ah *.jpg /s

This command will search the drive for all jpg files w/ a hidden attribute set.

If, you do these commands you should see something.


Good Luck.

If the laptop drive is properly connected through an adapter-usb is
best so as not too mess with master slave settings, the drive will
show up in my computer when the PC boots up-but the drive will only be
readable if the file system is compatible. If the drive was NTFS from
a Win XP notebook, but your checking the drive on a windows 98 machine
with fat32 it will not read it, if the desktop has win XP with NTFS,
it will read NTFS and FAT32. We have a service which can recover the
data if the drive is good using the same method I described if you
dont want to do it yourself, you can contact us through
http://J4Ti.com

Thanks everybody for the help .None of them worked for me. I used a
file recovery software and found everything in that hard drive.

Hamlet