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Ian74
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Hi, I'm enquiring on behalf of my sister, she has an old machine at present running Win Me, suffice to say it now badly needs replacing as it's just too slow. As the monitor etc is fine I've been looking into a barebones system for her. What I'd like to know is, is it possible to install her current hard drive into a barbones system so she can keep all data on it ie programmes and e-mails and so forth. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated.
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evilmonkeyzz
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Well, in theory yes, but in practice it may be harder. The system is very old and the hard drive will be different to the 'normal' ones now, so you will have to make sure the motherboard in the new PC can take the old style hard drive. Also, I assume that any new PC you have will have xp installed, so, while the documents may work from the old hard drive, all the programs will not as Windows won't know the paths to them.
Personally, I would back up all the data that she needs off the old PC to disk, if possible or usb stick/online if not. And start afresh in a brand new PC.
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