More 'puter help...

[AZhitman]

Well, after getting pissed at my "home grown" system one too many times, I finally pulled the trigger and replaced the whole thing.

Bought an AMD 3000+, 160G HD, 512MB, with WinXP Home, CDR/DVD and GeForce4. Loving it.

Here's the prob - I had the old HD from my 1st PC installed in my 2nd PC for storage. I have returned it to the original PC, which is a PII 333mHz HP Vectra POS (but it's for my 12-year old to use).

I need to get all my documents off the old HD, onto my new PC, but I really don't want to open the case of my new PC (too new, and I'm an idiot with PC's). Too much stuff for a floppy (300+ MB). Old PC doesn't have a CD burner...

Any ideas? Help a brotha out here?

[fiznat]

opening the case and piggybacking a HD is really not that bad of a job AZ... All you gotta do is unplug, move a jumper, plug in, and restart.. should be a 5 minute operation...

Other than that, the only things I can think of are maybe some sort of network setup between your computers (although this will be more complicated than simply moving the HD over), or borrow an external (USB) CD burner from someone.

[DAEDALUS]

Wow, that's a tough one. No USB right? What OS is the older machine on? I'm thinking you could zip up the files using a shareware zip utility. That'll get the size down some. If you're on high-speed internet, you could zip it up in chunks and email it to yourself...maybe 5-20mb at a time. ???

[AZhitman]

Old system is not online, has dialup modem but no service. Windows 98 OS...

Maybe I will just pull the HD and slap it in the new system temporarily... Gonna have someone more proficient than me do it.

[DAEDALUS]

Hope it's even possible. I'm thinking the new drive will be SCSI...not sure if it will work with the old one. If it does, I think it will slow the new drive down to the old drive's speed. Or something like that. It has been a while.

[Speed-Techniques]

i agree with fiz

[Rockenreno]

I'm thinking the new drive will be SCSI...

I doubt that, SCSI is by no means the default and I don't anticipate it replacing the much cheaper IDE any time soon.

As fiz mentioned, you can just plug the wires from your new computer into the old one, you dont even have to put the old hard drive in your new box. It's not to hard to do.

[catty]

Hope it's even possible. I'm thinking the new drive will be SCSI...not sure if it will work with the old one. If it does, I think it will slow the new drive down to the old drive's speed. Or something like that. It has been a while.

Nah there should be no problem temporarily swapping hard drives as pretty much every computer now uses either Serial ATA or ATA. Even if the computer uses SATA the motherboard still has the normal IDE connectors for the older hard drives. Only computers that i know of that run SCSI are servers and gamers since SCSI = very expensive and needs controller card for it to work. And yes it is a very simple job like fiz said just make sure not to touch any of the circuits and ground yourself on the case before messing with anything.

[90Q45blue]

And actually Serial ATA is supposed to surpass SCSI in terms of speed.

Nick