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Thread ID: 122040	2011-11-27 03:35:00	Reusing an old HDD	garyasta (1151)	Press F1

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1245782	2011-11-27 03:35:00	I have an old NEC Versa E3100 laptop. The battery has died and it will cost a few bucks to replace. It's not worth the expense as the HDD is only 60Gb and i have a couple of other replacements, a 500Gb HP and a backup ASUS Netbook. What I would like to do is place the NEC HDD in an external case and use it as a separate drive for the HP. As the full set of apps are still on the drive, how do I go about removing them (eg, WinXP, etc) and leaving some of the apps and of course, all of the data? Cheers	garyasta (1151)
1245783	2011-11-27 06:43:00	You want to attach a drive with XP installed on it to a different computer running Win7 or something? I did that recently. I managed to get the attached drive to work after a fashion but it wasn't worth the effort. I should've taken Wainuitech's advice at the time and reinstalled XP from scratch	BBCmicro (15761)
1245784	2011-11-27 06:59:00	I tried an XP reinstall recntly. Install went OK but to install SP3 I needed SP2 which needed SP1. Although there was a link for SP1 I could never connect so I couldn't then install SP2. Gave it all up as a bad job.	Bryan (147)
1245785	2011-11-27 07:19:00	I have an old NEC Versa E3100 laptop. The battery has died and it will cost a few bucks to replace. It's not worth the expense as the HDD is only 60Gb and i have a couple of other replacements, a 500Gb HP and a backup ASUS Netbook. What I would like to do is place the NEC HDD in an external case and use it as a separate drive for the HP. As the full set of apps are still on the drive, how do I go about removing them (eg, WinXP, etc) and leaving some of the apps and of course, all of the data? Cheers In most cases the the apps won't run from the disk assuming you are not going to boot from the external drive. I would just attach it and then delete all the directories that you don't want.	mikebartnz (21)
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