just like building and AR, he said

[gcrookston]

Doing a little upgrading with some parts I had gotten in a trade, I have to call BS on the "just like building an AR".

To avoid a problem, I thought I'd just keep my old harddrive with all my programs and files and install a new "fresh" hard drive when I went from Win 7 32b to 7 64b...

Yep, that hasn't worked out so well, so if anyone can give me a hand getting all my stuff on the old harddrive either accessible or transferred, I'll buy ya a cold beer...

Just like building an AR, my ASS

[joeyshoe]

holy heat sink! that is serious business right there!

[sniper7]

you just have to plug it in to the accessibility port. then it should be accessible.

[cstone]

You left out the part about it being just like building an AR if... IF an AR was built and assembled in Taiwan by small Asian females with tiny fingers : )

Who is taking up the IT support mantle now that Byte has moved to the Peach State?

[Sharpienads]

I see your problem. It looks like the doodad that goes from the thingamajig and connects to the whatchmacallit is on backwards. Hope that helps...

[xring]

wtf is that 100terras?

[Waywardson174]

When I did my build I installed the new OS on a fresh HDD and then just plugged the old HDD in as an extra. I could immediately access the old HDD as a separate folder from "my computer"

[waxthis]

When I did my build I installed the new OS on a fresh HDD and then just plugged the old HDD in as an extra. I could immediately access the old HDD as a separate folder from "my computer"

This

[ruthabagah]

I love your cardboard case! It will win the "Tree hugger" seal of approval.

[gcrookston]

When I did my build I installed the new OS on a fresh HDD and then just plugged the old HDD in as an extra. I could immediately access the old HDD as a separate folder from "my computer"

-- that's what I did. I had thought I could run the programs on the old one, but it doesn't like me. I can open and look at everything, just can't launch it (Quicken, Steam, Word, etc).

I must have left the extractor spring out. Now that I think about it, there are a lot of leftover parts...

My son's overseas as a contractor right now (you'd think he'd have gotten enough after 3 tours of Iraq), or I'd ask him.

As he says, "it's all about good cable management". ...ya? Then why do they have so many friggin cables?

The finished product: