CPU boot issues

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by NYCWhitebox, May 12, 2008.

  1. NYCWhitebox

    NYCWhitebox Private E-2

    Hi;
    My Q's r concerning the system outlined in the Aida32 report attached.
    In a nutshell, here's my prob. I have a dirty and neglected CPU which is about to die because I didn't maintain it properly. The smaller, slower HDD has been the boot and the faster HDD has had the WOW and other 3D's. Neverwinternights, Halflife, blahblah... I suspect that I have intermittant Video card crashes and HDD boot failures and have reason to believe that power supply is soon to go also. I want to save the relevant data from the boot drive and make the other drive the master boot (there is no OS installed there, just 4 MORPG's). I will probably end up buying another CPU but how would you handle the data from the two HDD's? Should I just network to one of the other comp's in the room and transfer off as much as I can piecemeal to a HDD with enough space (I'm not sure if everything I'd need is saved to the ducuments and settings folder... is it)? The 20 GB HDD is FAT32... I think the larger one is NTFS but I'm not sure... What I'm trying to determine is this:
    Is there any relatively easy way to get the data from the many programs on the nearly full 20GBHDD and their respective programs onto another new(er) HDD without many hours of reinstalling and researching the location of the data files? Can the file system be transposed from FAT32 to NTFS if I can mirror the smaller drive onto a larger one?
    Thanks for any advice you may have to offer...
    wayne
     

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  2. Toke

    Toke MajorGeek

    Easiest way here is seeing you have access to another computer is to slave each drive one at a time and drag the data across to the drive that is master on other comp. Then format the one you have moved and set to master then bring back to your computer and install your OS, Then take the Master drive out of other computer, change the jumper to slave setting, then drag data across, Set back to Master and return to other computer. Delete your retieved data on THAT drive of other comp Slave the last drive and do the same. Of course this operation will only retrieve data and not installed programmes.
     
  3. NYCWhitebox

    NYCWhitebox Private E-2

    Re: Toke response

    Toke;
    Thanks. Much appreciated.
     

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