Seriously, though, you can actually pay people to copy stuff off your old hard drive into the new one! Call up a couple of the little stores in Somerville, like Satellite Computer Repair. This stuff is easy-peasy for them, and should be priced accordingly.
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
Mal ,'War Stories'
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Theodosia - Oct 10, 2005 9:20:58 am PDT #4874 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
DXMachina - Oct 10, 2005 9:35:13 am PDT #4875 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Moving a hard drive yourself - [link]
Nutty - Oct 10, 2005 10:54:38 am PDT #4876 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
When last we joined our intrepid heroine, she had taken a break to bake a pumpkin pie (something she knows how to do without making things blow up).
In this exciting installment of Jane's Crazily Uneven Handiness, the cover of OldPC has been removed, and Jane paused to knit a whole new cat with the amount of cat hair found inside!
After that exciting adventure, Jane discovered that her OldPC has a side-panel, that makes it very hard to get at what looks like the hard drive. The side-panel removed, she discovers that the internal/harder-to-reach Phillips screw head is partially stripped. (Thanks, original builder!!)
How glad is our heroine to have inherited a cast-off "mini-tools" kit from her granddad? Very! How irritatingly difficult is it to wangle out the screw without stripping the head the rest of the way?
Tune in next week, when our heroine finds out!
le nubian - Oct 10, 2005 10:56:29 am PDT #4877 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I have some Outlook Express files (oldish like 2 years old) that were moved out of their original registry folders and I need to move them to a new computer. Any suggestions on what I need to do to open them and archive the email?
DXMachina - Oct 10, 2005 11:05:21 am PDT #4878 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
After that exciting adventure, Jane discovered that her OldPC has a side-panel, that makes it very hard to get at what looks like the hard drive.
Take a look at the assembly the hard drive is attached to. The entire assembly may be removable, which might make it easier to get at the side screws. In fact on some older machines, you may have to remove the assembly to get at some of the screws. Ping me if you need advice.
Nutty - Oct 10, 2005 11:11:28 am PDT #4879 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Next week happened faster than I'd thought. I now have a 6.4 gig HD in my hot little hands, and for good measure I removed extra screws from the old broken floppy and CD drives, so I don't have to worry about the stripped one. (DX was right, that disconnecting the little attachment doohickeys made it easier to open the side=panel. The "taking stuff apart" part is actually kind of fun, and except for the HD itself, I can break all this stuff with no problem. The installation, NSM.)
Now the question is, how do I install the old HD into the new PC without turning off the new PC, so I can follow instructions??
What, you mean I should be printing out the instructions DX linked to? (My printer is in the basement.) It might be wise if I thought of these things before I started, huh?
DXMachina - Oct 10, 2005 11:23:17 am PDT #4880 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
for good measure I removed extra screws from the old broken floppy and CD drives, so I don't have to worry about the stripped one
Heh, she's cannibalizing old computer parts. One of us! One of us!
NoiseDesign - Oct 10, 2005 11:28:09 am PDT #4881 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Is it wrong that I'm kinda turned on by this discussion?
amych - Oct 10, 2005 11:31:57 am PDT #4882 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Heh, she's cannibalizing old computer parts. One of us! One of us!
Suddenly, I find myself with a whole new theory about where the Reavers came from.
Steph L. - Oct 10, 2005 12:52:41 pm PDT #4883 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Heh, she's cannibalizing old computer parts. One of us! One of us!
Suddenly, I find myself with a whole new theory about where the Reavers came from.
Radio Shack?