Thanks! Most of the photos from this era came from either my old XP computer which I left in the garage for many years or an old hard drive I found with it. Some other photos I rescued from my now dead photobucket account from an old car forum that no longer exists. I have one other old computer hard drive to find, I removed it some years ago to get the photos from it but it was an old system, by the time I sourced the equipment to read it, I lost the drive so I hope to find it again one day. Sadly most of my photos from this era were on an external hard drive which failed and all data was lost. It hurt badly
Oh, I know that feeling. I had a Linux phase when I was 14, before I even really knew what exactly I was doing I erased all holiday photos from an external drive during Ubuntu install. I figured it would be safer than to install it on the main PC drive but it didn't occur to me to backup or partition. I installed everything onto the external HDD, including the bootloader, so the PC was unable to start without the drive connected and running for a few years!
I feel your pain, I lost over 10k car photos from holidays and events around the world from similar age, from 13-17 roughly which would have been great to add here