Can I hook up my ancient computer to my new one?
I have an old e-machine with windows xp. It's been sitting around forever because it has a number of photos from back in the day that I really would like to retrieve for their sentimental value.
Now that I'm stuck at home doing social distancing, I finally have the time to tackle this project. I'm thinking that I could attach my new PC (windows 10) to the old one and tell it to do a vampire routine and suck up both the pix and some of my long lost word documents from the e-machine. Is this possible and if so, how do I go about doing it? |
A direct connection seems much harder than using a portable USB stick, or temporarily uploading them from the old machine onto a free Dropbox account, etc.
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Thank you, Clodfobble! The problem is that I can no longer boot up the e-machine. Is it possible to download an XP boot disk from the net without getting charged some outrageous fee from Microsoft?
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could maybe buy a hard drive caddy?
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I've got a similar question.
We sort of inherited a 2007 iMac. It's a beautiful machine and has a pretty nice monitor. It's pretty slow though. Can't really surf the web with it. My son tried playing surviv.io and died almost right away because it was so laggy. Does it have any use besides use as a stand alone computer? I think I know the answer. This thing is a chore/money suck if we try to upgrade it and will never make us happy. I see they go for about $70 on ebAY |
Macs had an excellent implementation of Risk back in the day.
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Nothing? Error message? Does it have power? (Do the lights and fans come on?) |
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Your old computer never forgot anything, it just forgot where it put it.
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*Meanwhile...* I got busy giving my study/living room a bit of a make-over which I will finish up today. I will begin the task of liberating my old pictures and other files tomorrow. The 4th of July seems like an auspicious time to begin the project for reals. Thanks to everyone for your input! |
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I found out the expensive way you can use any XP disc anyone has laying around, it's not keyed to a particular installation.
Read this. |
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