Nagasama
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okay i finally got tired of banging my head against the wall that is my mom's dell dimension.
in a fit of rage, i ordered all the parts i didnt already have to build her a new system.
i ordered:
fortron 400w psu
centurion 5
wd 160gb
lg dvd
evga 7300gs
i have:
x2 4200 am2 (with stock fan)
abit kn9 ultra nf4
2gb ddr2 800 (i havent decided if i should keep my xms2 or my HZ..)...lol i shoulda bought ram when it was really cheap...
now, my question is this...
i need to copy her accounting files and "my documents" to the new hdd. can i just take the old hdd out of the old box, put it into the new box(after new hdd is partitioned and set up), reboot, set the wd as the primary and copy the files (MD and accounting files) over from the old dell hdd to the the new WD hard drive? i would like to keep her dell 80gb IDE as her backup (or mine heh heh). can someone confirm this for me? if i lose those files, i will get kilt for sure.
in a fit of rage, i ordered all the parts i didnt already have to build her a new system.
i ordered:
fortron 400w psu
centurion 5
wd 160gb
lg dvd
evga 7300gs
i have:
x2 4200 am2 (with stock fan)
abit kn9 ultra nf4
2gb ddr2 800 (i havent decided if i should keep my xms2 or my HZ..)...lol i shoulda bought ram when it was really cheap...
now, my question is this...
i need to copy her accounting files and "my documents" to the new hdd. can i just take the old hdd out of the old box, put it into the new box(after new hdd is partitioned and set up), reboot, set the wd as the primary and copy the files (MD and accounting files) over from the old dell hdd to the the new WD hard drive? i would like to keep her dell 80gb IDE as her backup (or mine heh heh). can someone confirm this for me? if i lose those files, i will get kilt for sure.