Revive or Bury?

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Originally Posted by Esther

My husband said I would have to have the programs in the new computer for that to work.

Huh? The programs are on your harddrive, not your computer in a matter of speaking. Without a harddrive, you can't do much.

[jfrog]

Assuming the harddrive is fine then it shouldn't be a problem to have someone put it in a new computer for you and actually boot from it. Booting from your old harddrive would mean your computer would function exactly like your old one with the same programs and everything. I can't imagine this would cost much either. The only thing about this method is that it would require a desktop computer if your current one is a desktop because desktop hardrives are physically larger than laptop harddrives.

They can probably even set it up to where ya can boot from either harddrive meaning that you can boot from the old one in windows XP with all ur old stuff there (thats what I assume you have) or you can boot from the new one in windows 7.

I think you said that just the mortherboard was broke so you really should talk to a local computer person and see what kinda a deal he can offer you on transfering your old harddrive to a new computer and getting it to boot properly. Assuming there isn't something I'm overlooking as to why it can't be done.

[jfrog]

One other thing I forgot to mention. There is another option that might not cost as much. You can probably get a motherboard from a site like newegg for around 50 dollars. You would probably need a computer guy to help you pick one out that is compatabile with all your parts and probably install it for you too so that will add some charges. But it might be worth looking into if you want a really cheap fix.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...25%20-%20%2450

Oh yea, the site is one of the largest sellers of computer parts and from what i remember you don't have to pay any sales tax through them. They are very reputable too and almost all their products have reviews and ratings. I built my whole computer from scractch from parts from their store and it's been running almost a year straight (and I mean ever hour in a 24 hour day for almost every day) with no problems. I think the motherboard I got was about 70ish dollars. If I hadn't planned on wanting it to play videogames and some stuff like that I would have probably gotten a cheaper one.