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Computers - Time for a new HARD DRIVE. How?
4 yr old desktop drive was making some nasty sounds Saturday, wouldn't go past the 'BIOS' screen upon startup.
4 restarts later it works fine...living on borrowed time -  I have an external 100GB backup drive, and need to move about 40GB to the newly installed (*to be* newly installed, haven't even bought one yet) I am not a true computer techie but can probably do it..... How? 2001 Gateway
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05-05-2008, 09:47 AM
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If its an external drive, just plug it into a USB port on your Gateway. If your running 2000/XP, Windows should recognize the drive.
Next open up windows explorer and copy the files to the new drive. You could also run a backup of everything onto the new drive, but if you just want the files, a raw copy would probably be the most portable. EDIT: 2001 Gateway? Get your files off and get a new computer while they are still selling XP. Just my 2 cents. |
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05-05-2008, 09:52 AM
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No kidding. I have XP and it works a-ok great -
Don't want to go to Vista PLUS the hassles of an all-new computer
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05-05-2008, 10:08 AM
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Craig,
Get a computer with XP on it and use it until Vista is refined. Move all your good data to the USB drive then copy back to the desktop. Joe
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Yea get a new box, they can be had for cheap cheap nowdays. XP for the win!
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Who has new computers with XP on them?
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