Best way to dump photos from an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.1.2?

[ShotgunSteven]

I have a 64 GB iPhone 5. When I connect it to my laptop which is running Windows 7, even after wiping the drivers, it never managed to successfully install the drivers again. It will let me synch new music and stuff from my laptop to my phone and vice versa, but it doesn't back up or let me access my photos on the laptop.

Since I have 7.1.2 I can't use Google Drive or MicroSoft One Drive to dump them to, as they require 8.0. Since they're not new photos, it won't synch them to iCloud if I turn it on.

If I turn on iCloud is there a way to manually dump them?

I was going to update to iOS 8.whatever but I don't want to attempt that if the drivers are screwed on my laptop.

 

[rsutoratosu]

i use a free app call PhotoTransfer. Basically have your computer on the same wifi as your phone, it turns your phone into a web host.

You http into the iphone and you can tag all the photo to download and it'll download into a zip

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Windows 7 Import Wizard should do the trick.

FYI, I doubt you could will be able to update to iOS 8 as 9 is out and that usually means Apple has unsigned 8.

 

[Mushkins]

Why not just update to iOS 9 right through the phone? You can do it over your wifi, no need to plug in and do it through itunes.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Try some other cloud syncing apps: Flickr, Amazon, Dropbox, etc...

I'd probably just update to ios9, completely remove/reinstall itunes on the PC and try to sort it out that way.

 

[Ketchup]

Do you have your stuff backed up in the cloud? I upgraded my parents' desktop to Windows 10, and the Photos app does a great job of pulling from the cloud and the desktop.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Not backed up in the cloud, no.

How much memory would I need free in my phone to upgrade from 7.1.2 to whatever is current, over wifi? I think they recommended 4 GB from going from that to the first iteration of iOS8.