I own a complete emachine desktop computer system. My motherboard recently crashed and I still have documents I want to get from my hard drive. I could buy a refurbished emachine computer online for about 5 with a 0 rebate. Would you pay to get your motherboard fixed or just buy the new computer. IF I do this how hard is it to get data off my old hard drive and on to my new one? I want to do this as easily and cheaply as possible.
July 7th, 2010 on 8:54 am
For as cheap as computers are getting now , I would just buy a new one. Then, hook your hard drive up to your new computer. You will then have your files AND a bigger hard drive capacity.
July 7th, 2010 on 8:54 am
buy the new one you can do a pc to pc transfer windows xp allows this
July 7th, 2010 on 8:54 am
I personally would replace the motherboard but I used to do that for a living. In your case, pick up the other one, take the hard drive out of the trashed system and connect it to the new system. If both drives are set for CS (cable select) your system should read both with the old drive listed as D:. If there is a problem then set the drive in the new machine as master and the old one as slave. Remember that you will have access to the data on the old drive with no problem but none of the programs on it will work.
July 7th, 2010 on 8:54 am
a new mobo will run $150 or less you can probably find one that suit your purposes for $100 as long as youre not a big gamer or anything
so it just depends on how good your current pc is
its is not hard to get the data off
if you get a new pc you can open it up and put the other HD in it as a 2nd HD and move all your files to the new one
you may or may not need drivers
most of the time they will self install
just make sure your jumper settings are correct
there is a sticker on the HD that will tell you how to set them
the easiest setting is CS for cable select
unless you know if its a master or slave
July 7th, 2010 on 8:54 am
I suggest you to buy a new one, most new computer could cost less, if you want to put your old data from old computer to new computer, you simply remove the hard-drive into the new computer. So, you will get all your datas back.