got a new 'puter

Dave

Dave

Well-Known Member
picked up an e-machine today. athlon processor, 100gb hd, 512mb ddram, cd-rw & dvd.

the real fun begins trying to get all the stuff off the old comp and onto this one.
 
Cool, but no. The real fun begins when you try to upgrade it. j/k

They are not as bad as a lot of people say, my mother-in-law bought one three years ago that is still going strong today. Doesn't have the best video card, and it's a celeron 400, but it still works good for her.

Which Athlon is it?
 
sounds like the same system my roomate got. with an athlon 2200xp...it is ok...but we put in a better video card.
 
its an XP. rated somewhere around 1.8ghz i think.

i'm not all that worried about updating it. this machine should (better) last a few years. the old one was a 233mhz running windows 95 and that held me over for around 3 years.
 
Spot said:
the real fun begins trying to get all the stuff off the old comp and onto this one.
Click to expand...

Just slap the hard drive from the old computer in there and copy it all over. Really not that hard, there should be an extra connection in there for a second hard drive. You will want to make sure and set the jumpers on the old hard drive to either Slave or Cable Select. (sl or cs) Should show it on the drive, if not, look up the model number in google, you'll be able to find the manual on it.
 
No, most of the time they are not. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a proprietory hard drive.
 
You do realize that unless you have the setup disks for any programs you have installed, you probably won't be able to copy those to the new machine, right? Most of the time the program isn't just installed in the program files folder, but part goes into Windows/system and other places as well as making changes to the registry.

Now the cds you got with the HP machine will probably not work with the new one, most of those are proprietary to the machine.
 
that will be sooo cool. :D

i was already dreading copying what i could onto floppie or e-mailing it to myself.
 
PuterTutor said:
You do realize that unless you have the setup disks for any programs you have installed, you probably won't be able to copy those to the new machine, right? Most of the time the program isn't just installed in the program files folder, but part goes into Windows/system and other places as well as making changes to the registry.

Now the cds you got with the HP machine will probably not work with the new one, most of those are proprietary to the machine.
Click to expand...

i was aware of that, but than you anyway.
i have a lot of random stuff to transfer. saved games, mp3's, address books, photos. stuff like that.
all the rest of the stuff i have the original cd's for.
 
Ok, thats cool. One more thing. If you do have a problem getting the emachine to recognize the old hard drive, one other option would be to take the cdrw drive out of the Emachine and put it in the old one temporarily, be alot better than floppies or email.
 
Hard drives shouldn't be proprietary, but I have one sitting right by me that came out of a dell internet box that has no label on it. It auto-detects as 6.8GB, and luckily I was able to figure out that it's a Seagate. I have another Seagate drive sitting around, so I use that for reference on the jumper settings.
 
Spot said:
picked up an e-machine today. athlon processor, 100gb hd, 512mb ddram, cd-rw & dvd.

the real fun begins trying to get all the stuff off the old comp and onto this one.
Click to expand...

Why don't you just hook up the old drive as a slave to the new one and copy and paste from one to the other?

He He! Guess who didn't read the whole thread before she posted.:D

I'd do the same with the Cd-Rw using Re-writables, but then I do have 14 of them sitting there unused. :)
 
Hard drives are not proprietary. An IDE drive is an IDE drive. A SCSI drive is a SSI drive. Some are faster than others, i.e., newer standards, but they are all backwards compatable. The issue lies in will an older system's BIOS see the larger hard drive for what it is? Another issue is that if you put an olf 6GB drive in a new system on the same channel as a 40GB drive, that 40GB drive will only transfer data as fast as the 6GB can. Whatever the lowest common interface is compatable with both drives is what that channel will operate at.
 
my advice is to use new software. forget your old os and programs. if you go modern then go all the way. i would not do a direct copy of old junk to the new machine unless it was just downloads or files that you want to keep. putting old software on a new computer is a good way to screw it up.

if you need any freeware/shareware, i get all of mine at webattack.com
 
One thing to keep any upgrade in mnd. You CANNOT upgrade ANY version of Windows to Windows XP Home or Pro edition if it's a OEM version of Windows XP.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top