New (old) computer
- From: micael911 <micael911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:44:42 -0700
I recently aquired a another PC from some friends. It is an Emachines
T1742 and I don't believe it is very old. I haven't had the chance to hook it
up to my monitor to check it out, but I believe it was not used much. It is
slightly better than my current PC. It has a 1.7 GHz Celeron vs. my 1.0 CPU,
I believe the motherboard to be better, and the hard drive is the same size
as my own: 40 Gig. My friends took the RAM in the new computer.
I half considered replacing my CPU with the faster 1.7, but I don't think
my motherboard can handle it. I think the best course of action is to move
the hard ware from my current computer into the new one. Besides, I like the
new PC case better. ;-) This would probably include my hard drive, RAM, and
CD-RW/DVD. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. I'm not sure
whether to put in my hard drive and try to boot from that (I've read I'll
probably have to do a repair install) or put my hard drive in as a slave or
secondary master.
Are there usually problems when you run 2 hard drives on a computer?
Also, any thoughts about if it would increase speed to keep programs on one
hard drive and use the other primarily for windows?
I welcome any thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.
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