Wife's puter imploded

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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

Well sort...I think the old Celeron gave up the ghost finally. Time to build
a new machine and install XP Home on her new machine...with a new hd ntfs.

Question:
If I remove the old hardrive and temporarily install it on the new machine
for purposes of copying all her junk to the new machine with XP will it be
able to read the old drive? It's probably FAT32...can't check anything on it
now since the old machine display is blank and god awful siren sounds spew
from the speaker. (not nice).

Tnx,

R.
 
The fat32 formatted drive should be seen in the new computer. You may have
to change the drives jumpers (both drives) so the primary drive is either
single or master without a slave. The old drive you are installing will have
to be jumpered as a slave drive.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
To add to Richard's advice, you could keep the old drive in the new machine
as a B drive.
 
okie doke.
I was concerned that it wouldn't be readable. After I copy stuff I'm gonna
throw it out anyway...it's only 10g.

thanks all.

r.


| Better make that D: drive
| A & B are reserved for floppies,
|
| --
| Jerry
|
| A turtle never gets anywhere
| unless he sticks his head out.
|
| | > To add to Richard's advice, you could keep the old drive in the new
| > machine as a B drive.
| >
| >
| > --
| > Don
| > Vancouver USA
|
|
 
YES!! I know better, it's just my 74 year old brain needs reformatting. <G>


--
Don
"May your shadow be found in happy places." (Native North American)


Squire said:
Better make that D: drive
A & B are reserved for floppies,
Click to expand...
 
hey don't feel bad...I ran out of biological RAM years ago...and
reformatting the brain-drive didn't help either.


| YES!! I know better, it's just my 74 year old brain needs reformatting.
<G>
|
|
| --
| Don
| "May your shadow be found in happy places." (Native North American)
|
|
| | > Better make that D: drive
| > A & B are reserved for floppies,
| >
| > --
| > Jerry
| >
| > A turtle never gets anywhere
| > unless he sticks his head out.
| >
| > | >> To add to Richard's advice, you could keep the old drive in the new
| >> machine as a B drive.
| >>
| >>
| >> --
| >> Don
| >> Vancouver USA
| >
| >
|
|
 
Rob

You need to run Disk Defragmenter after major system updates <g>.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Is that what they call a lobotomy?

Don


Gerry Cornell said:
Rob

You need to run Disk Defragmenter after major system updates <g>.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Click to expand...
 
lol...no wonder I'm feeling scattered !! :-)


| Rob
|
| You need to run Disk Defragmenter after major system updates <g>.
|
| --
|
| Hope this helps.
|
| Gerry
| ~~~~
| FCA
| Stourport, England
|
| Enquire, plan and execute
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
| | > hey don't feel bad...I ran out of biological RAM years ago...and
| > reformatting the brain-drive didn't help either.
| >
| >
| > | > | YES!! I know better, it's just my 74 year old brain needs
reformatting.
| > <G>
| > |
| > |
| > | --
| > | Don
| > | "May your shadow be found in happy places." (Native North American)
| > |
| > |
| >
|
|
 
In Rob Giordano (Crash) had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Well sort...I think the old Celeron gave up the ghost finally. Time
to build a new machine and install XP Home on her new machine...with
a new hd ntfs.

Question:
If I remove the old hardrive and temporarily install it on the new
machine for purposes of copying all her junk to the new machine with
XP will it be able to read the old drive? It's probably FAT32...can't
check anything on it now since the old machine display is blank and
god awful siren sounds spew from the speaker. (not nice).

Tnx,

R.
Click to expand...

Crash...

If you call it junk one more time you might not have to worry about it as
she's likely to divorce you. <g> I know when I call my other half's junk
junk then I'm given a good ration of junk to deal with. What good is a
pottery wheel in the LIVING room? It's JUNK... See? Don't worry - we won't
tell her.

Anyhow, why not unplug the speakers and see what's going on? What happened
to the Celery Onion that's making you think it's dead?

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"I am glad of all details, whether they seem to you to be relevant or
not." - Sherlock Holmes
 
okie doke.
I was concerned that it wouldn't be readable. After I copy stuff I'm
gonna throw it out anyway...it's only 10g.

thanks all.

r.
Click to expand...

'Only' 10 gig. That doesn't mean it is useless.

It could be used as a backup drive for important documents. I would surely
be able to find a use for it.
 
Welp it started with the cpu cooling fan getting hung up intermittantly, I
told them (wife and daughter) to turn the machine off until I had a chance
to take it apart..do they listen?....nope.

When I took the cooling fan off the cpu there was some evidence of
overheating...like heat marks. Cleaned it, put some conductive goop on
it..cleaned everything reseated all cards etc. Nothing...except the european
ambulance siren sound from the speaker..the on board speaker not the sound
card speaker (sound card's been long dead).

Whats really funny is...it's "their" computer when it's working...when its
broken it suddenly becomes "my" puter.

Ya cant win either way.


| In | Rob Giordano (Crash) had this to say:
|
| My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
|
| > Well sort...I think the old Celeron gave up the ghost finally. Time
| > to build a new machine and install XP Home on her new machine...with
| > a new hd ntfs.
| >
| > Question:
| > If I remove the old hardrive and temporarily install it on the new
| > machine for purposes of copying all her junk to the new machine with
| > XP will it be able to read the old drive? It's probably FAT32...can't
| > check anything on it now since the old machine display is blank and
| > god awful siren sounds spew from the speaker. (not nice).
| >
| > Tnx,
| >
| > R.
|
| Crash...
|
| If you call it junk one more time you might not have to worry about it as
| she's likely to divorce you. <g> I know when I call my other half's junk
| junk then I'm given a good ration of junk to deal with. What good is a
| pottery wheel in the LIVING room? It's JUNK... See? Don't worry - we won't
| tell her.
|
| Anyhow, why not unplug the speakers and see what's going on? What happened
| to the Celery Onion that's making you think it's dead?
|
| --
| Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
| http://dts-l.org/
| http://kgiii.info/
|
| "I am glad of all details, whether they seem to you to be relevant or
| not." - Sherlock Holmes
|
|
 
In Rob Giordano (Crash) had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Welp it started with the cpu cooling fan getting hung up
intermittantly, I told them (wife and daughter) to turn the machine
off until I had a chance to take it apart..do they listen?....nope.

When I took the cooling fan off the cpu there was some evidence of
overheating...like heat marks. Cleaned it, put some conductive goop on
it..cleaned everything reseated all cards etc. Nothing...except the
european ambulance siren sound from the speaker..the on board speaker
not the sound card speaker (sound card's been long dead).

Whats really funny is...it's "their" computer when it's
working...when its broken it suddenly becomes "my" puter.

Ya cant win either way.
Click to expand...

If the old PC is also XP Home you can go one better...

Install the HDD in the new machine as slave.

Grab one of the tools here (one is even free):

Backup! Image/Clone:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html

Copy the contents of the old drive to the new drive...

Follow the repair install process...

Repair Installation of XP:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/xprepair.html

If it's not XP then you can still likely do a repair installation and then
an upgrade to XP. Which means that they'll keep all of their junk and you'll
be a hero.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"I am glad of all details, whether they seem to you to be relevant or
not." - Sherlock Holmes
 
Thanks Galen. Nah the puter is ME and it's not worth operating on. I dont
even have time to build one right now so we ordered a Dell (they had some
promos on this weekend)...when I added it all up I couldn't even buy the
parts and monitor for the price they'll deliver for. All's I'll have to do
is snag the info off the old hd.

Hero? I'm never the hero..it's ALWAYS dad's fault.


| In | Rob Giordano (Crash) had this to say:
|
| My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
|
| > Welp it started with the cpu cooling fan getting hung up
| > intermittantly, I told them (wife and daughter) to turn the machine
| > off until I had a chance to take it apart..do they listen?....nope.
| >
| > When I took the cooling fan off the cpu there was some evidence of
| > overheating...like heat marks. Cleaned it, put some conductive goop on
| > it..cleaned everything reseated all cards etc. Nothing...except the
| > european ambulance siren sound from the speaker..the on board speaker
| > not the sound card speaker (sound card's been long dead).
| >
| > Whats really funny is...it's "their" computer when it's
| > working...when its broken it suddenly becomes "my" puter.
| >
| > Ya cant win either way.
| >
| >
| > | >> In | >> Rob Giordano (Crash) had this to say:
| >>
| >> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
| >>
| >>> Well sort...I think the old Celeron gave up the ghost finally. Time
| >>> to build a new machine and install XP Home on her new machine...with
| >>> a new hd ntfs.
| >>>
| >>> Question:
| >>> If I remove the old hardrive and temporarily install it on the new
| >>> machine for purposes of copying all her junk to the new machine with
| >>> XP will it be able to read the old drive? It's probably
| >>> FAT32...can't check anything on it now since the old machine
| >>> display is blank and god awful siren sounds spew from the speaker.
| >>> (not nice).
| >>>
| >>> Tnx,
| >>>
| >>> R.
| >>
| >> Crash...
| >>
| >> If you call it junk one more time you might not have to worry about
| >> it as she's likely to divorce you. <g> I know when I call my other
| >> half's junk junk then I'm given a good ration of junk to deal with.
| >> What good is a pottery wheel in the LIVING room? It's JUNK... See?
| >> Don't worry - we won't tell her.
| >>
| >> Anyhow, why not unplug the speakers and see what's going on? What
| >> happened to the Celery Onion that's making you think it's dead?
| >>
| >> --
| >> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
| >> http://dts-l.org/
| >> http://kgiii.info/
| >>
| >> "I am glad of all details, whether they seem to you to be relevant or
| >> not." - Sherlock Holmes
|
| If the old PC is also XP Home you can go one better...
|
| Install the HDD in the new machine as slave.
|
| Grab one of the tools here (one is even free):
|
| Backup! Image/Clone:
| http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html
|
| Copy the contents of the old drive to the new drive...
|
| Follow the repair install process...
|
| Repair Installation of XP:
| http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/xprepair.html
|
| If it's not XP then you can still likely do a repair installation and then
| an upgrade to XP. Which means that they'll keep all of their junk and
you'll
| be a hero.
|
| --
| Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
| http://dts-l.org/
| http://kgiii.info/
|
| "I am glad of all details, whether they seem to you to be relevant or
| not." - Sherlock Holmes
|
|
 
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