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Hello I am Tim and we have recently dropped our computer on the floor and it will no longer turn on! In order to get photos and other files off of the computer I have removed the hard drive and connected it to another laptop, but there are no files on it. I realised I have saved all files to the desktop would this affect me being able to recover them?

 

Hi Tim and welcome to CHF.

Providing the hard drive is still working and is seen as an external or additional drive in the other laptop, you should still be able to access all files.
If as you say you put them directly onto the desktop on the original computer, just navigate through the drive to the desktop folder, open that folder and they should be there.

Nev.

 

thank you nev

Tim

 

to navigate to the desktop goto root/users/username/desktop
root referring to the external drives main folder and user name being the username of the account that has the files