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Dead laptop want to recover data that was on it
Good evening, hopefully you guys can help me out here. I had an Asus laptop (Windows 10) which recently my daughter (who is 3) decided to destroy. It was a cheap laptop so I wasn't to upset that she broke it. Before throwing it away I did remove the old hard drive. I didn't have much useful stuff on there but I did have 3 years of family photos which I would really like to recover. How do I go about doing this? I purchased a hard drive disk enclosure and plugged it into my desktop computer (windows 8). I am able to see the OS (I:and Data(J: however the data folder says 258gb free of 258gb. This doesn't make sense to me as I know there must've been some data saved. Are all my photos gone?