"I sold my old computer this morning, and the old hard drive on it was taken home because there were many precious photos of me, including a large number of photos such as college campus memories, weddings, travel, etc. But when I connected the old hard drive to the new computer, it actually showed empty. It was so strange. Isn't it impossible to see these photos of me? Do you know how I should find the photos on the old hard drive?" How to restore photos of the old hard drive of Windows 10/8/7? Many netizens have encountered such problems. In this article, you can learn two ways to recover. Let’s take a look.
Old hard drives, USB drives and memory cards that have been stored for too long may encounter the following problems when trying to open and reuse them:
- location is unaccessible and denied.
- hard disk partition file system is displayed as RAW
- prompts that it needs to be formatted first to use it normally
These errors are related to various hard disks, especially for hard disks that cannot work properly for too long. No matter what the reason is, when you encounter such problems, it is highly likely that you may have lost your important data. Although it is very likely that the important photo data will be saved on it, you cannot see them at all. At this time, you need to rely on some means to recover photos. Below, you can learn two ways to restore images in formats such as jpg, jpeg, png, tiff, bmp and pdf on old hard drives.
If the photos on the old hard disk are lost or hidden, one method is to use a command prompt to retrieve them, and the other method is to use a third-party data recovery software to retrieve them. The editor has written the detailed tutorials of both methods below.
Method 1. Use the command prompt to restore the photo
Step 1. Press Windows + R key to call up the run dialog box;
Step 2. Enter cmd in the dialog box and press Confirm;
Step 3. In the black command prompt window, enter the command g: dir /s *.jpg |more and press Enter (assuming the old hard disk is detected as drive G:);
This will show you all folders containing the jpg file on G:. If your image file is in other file formats, such as png, please replace the command g: dir /s *.jpg |more with g: directory /s *.png |more
Step 0 4. Once the folder is determined, copy the directory path and paste it into Windows Explorer, which is the path you can find the lost image with a specific format.
Method 2. Use Yiwo Data Recovery software to recover photos
If using the command prompt is not helpful, and the photos are lost due to deletion, formatting, RAW partition, etc., don’t worry, you can also use professional data recovery software - Yiwo Data Recovery to find these photos and recover. Yiwo Data Recovery Software is a powerful data recovery software, which is deeply trusted by more than 720,000,000 users around the world. It is suitable for a variety of data loss scenarios, such as deletion, formatting, disk partition change RAW, system crashes, partial virus infection, etc. It supports quickly recovering lost data from various storage devices such as desktop computer , notebooks, mobile hard disks, USB disks, SD/TF cards, etc., and supports recovery of many different types of files. If you want to restore the photos on the old hard drive, it is easy, but remember that the data above needs to be not covered by the new data! Now, let’s take a look at the detailed steps to recover photos.
Step 1
- starts Yiwo data recovery software;
- Select the hard disk you want to perform photo recovery X:
- Click the scan button.
Step 2
- Scan all data on the hard disk.
- View the "Delete File" results, especially if the photo is deleted.
Step 3
- Click "Filter" and select "Picture", and only the picture files will be displayed.
- Select the target photo and click the recovery button.
Tip: If you don’t find the photo in the above steps, you can try looking under “More Files”.
Except for the photos on the old hard disk missing, we often lose data on computers or other devices for various reasons. At this time, we try not to write new data, because new data can easily overwrite the lost data. Once it is overwritten, the possibility of recovery is particularly small, so we must find Yiwo Data Recovery Software as soon as possible to recover. At the same time, if you really get confused and lose all kinds of important data, the editor strongly recommends that you use professional backup software - Yiwo Backup Expert to back up these data. In this way, even if the data is lost, you can directly find the backup data and restore it, which is also very simple.
