Solved Seagate 13032 in win7 opens incorrectly

[t3rmt3rm]

Hi, the issue goes like this:
I've connected my Seagate HDD (FAT32) to my laptop via USB, Windows lets me access the HDD, but all i get is a list of .DRV files.
What should i do?

 

[Megahertz07]

Where did you get the HDD? Why is it formatted as FAT32?
As your files are from 1993 it seems that this is a HDD from a very old computer. In this case I would just do a default format.

 

[t3rmt3rm]

This is the HDD from my very first PC . I've found it, and decided to dump data from it, i don't get, why it says 1993, it should be 1999, around that date. If I format it, the data would be lost, right? I would like to retrieve it, is there a way to do so?

 

[Megahertz07]

As you have access to the drive you can copy to any other drive.
*.Drv files are driver files. As they are very old I would say that they are useless.
I would also say that a 20 year old drive is also useless.
It's up to you, but I would discard it.

 

[t3rmt3rm]

The problem is that i don't see any other files, except these ones (drv, scr), but drive info shows, that it is almost full, so is there a way to get my old files? Not these drv scr and others?

 

[jumanji]

OK, let us see whether there are any recoverable files at all.

Download, install and run the free trial version of GetDadaBack - Oops - GetDataBack Simple and scan your FAT 32 drive. Check whether it shows your files. If it shows your files, we can recover the files using some other freeware.

https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm Please read the documentation on that page too. It is very simple to use.

 

[t3rmt3rm]

jumanji, yes, that's what i needed! You've made my evening. Thank you! Now i am able to see and access my files!

 

[jumanji]

What did you do? I haven't done any magic.I am just wondering what happened?