I use a docking station. Sometimes old hard drives won’t read on my Windows desktop due to how the hard drive was formatted, so I plug the docking station into an old laptop that I have an Ubuntu operating system on and I can access the pictures that way and move them over to a fresh new USB flash drive. If the drive is operating fine mechanically I will reformat it so that Windows can read it and I install it in a hard drive enclosure to use as an external drive for backups.