HARD DRIVE...What's the worst thing that can happen if you install a hard drive into another computer?

1 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it's not that simple. It would be nice if it was. I'm afraid you're stuck and will have to work with your new computer until you are comfortable using it.

The problem is that the old hardrive was set up specifically to run in your other computer. Your new computer is configured with different drivers that control it's hardware and software functions that your old one doesn't have on it (simplistic expanation). Swapping your old hard drive into your new computer would most likely result in it not even booting up.

If there are additional stand alone files you need access to that the tech did not transfer to your external hard drive you can probably still access these though. Most desktop computers can have multiple hard drives in them so you would need someone to help you properly install the old hard drive as your secondary hard drive. You would then be able access all of the files (pictures, word files, Excel files, music files etc...) on your old hard drive but you would not be able to run any of the programs it had on it, including windows.

Please, dont' shoot the messanger! .

Poppet! Said: 2 Helen, with some time you will get just as comfortable working with stuff on the external drive as you were on the old computer. And you can always transfer things off the external hard drive in to your new computer, in the same place as you had them on your old computer!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.