The obvious questions:
- Can you copy to a USB-stick?
- Is this photo library on that same laptop where that drive worked before?
- What file system is on that drive (FAT, NTFS, Apples?)
If copying to a USB-stick works, do that. The average pic being 2 MB and the average USB-stick 8 GB that are 4000 photo's. If she has more do it several times, unloading to another machine in between.
Kees
i am trying to back up my wifes photo library in order to rebuild iPhoto since it is not working. i have a my passport external hard drive that we used to back up her laptop before. i can see the contents of the ex-hd and can even transfer things from it to her laptop but i can not copy to the passport. there are 288 gb free on it so space is not the problem.

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