Assuming photos are from a digital camera, why not buy a new larger memory card for the camera - less than £15 for a 256Mb one, and it will always be useful in future when taking new photos. Then just copy the photos back on the camera to transfer. Most cameras just appear as a removable drive when you plug them into a USB port and you can copy files onto them in the same way as copying photos off them. If the old PC isn't running XP, you have the added advantage of not having to install any camera drivers, cos they should already have been installed. New PC will undoubtably have XP on it, so should be plug and play.
Or, expanding on what Memetic said:
When I upgraded to a new PC, I put the hard drive from the old PC in the new one as a second drive. I copied off it any files I wanted, reformatted it, and put the 'My Documents' folder on it (Windows 'Help' will tell you how to change the folder's location). If anything goes horribly wrong with the C drive, at least my documents are safe on a separate drive. I periodically backup 'My Documents' to a safe place on the C drive to be doubly safe.
To do the hardware bit, get the hard drive out of the old PC and set the jumper on the back to 'Slave'. Fix it into a spare 5 1/4 inch bay in the chassis of the new PC. Plug the connector half way down the data cable into it, and locate a spare lead from the power supply unit. When you restart the PC, you should find you've got hard drives as drives C and D.
If you're not happy opening up the PCs, sure you'll find someone you know that will help you out, or (God forbid), get a computer shop to do it, but it's not as complicated as it sounds.
Last edited by Troy McClure; 9th February 2006 at 16:46.