I wish I were as clever as some of your guests, but here is my problem. I have a Dell Inspiron from 2007--beautiful, lovely,

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I have a Dell Inspiron from 2007--beautiful, lovely, but all of a sudden two weeks ago while looking at a mountain on Google Earth (never do that again!) my computer froze and it was the beginning of a hellish ride down the bios world I'm still recovering from! A dialog box opened up telling me something about my video card...the next day the pixels on the menu page were expanded insanely and I just kept sighing as to what will come next. Another dailog box about sound card, then video card....started it, froze up, turned it off, started it, froze up, unplugged it. Talked to friends' husbands who are computer savvy and everyone says its the graphics card. Took it to Microcenter and replaced the graphics card and it worked for about 45 min when bam, antartica set in. I'm tired. I'm weary. I'm told to dump it and buy new but why? Is there anything I can do to save it? The computer is now at black screen with a blinking prompt--rather ominious I think and very sci-fi (the future is here!). I've got hundreds of documents and thousands of photos on it. Okay so I can apparently save them if I pay them to do it, What about my Photoshop and InDesign? I've misplaced those disks (didn't think I'd ever need them) and now am wholeheartedly stuck. Yes, just call me that: Wholeheartedly Stuck! Many thanks for any advice!
 
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This is a brilliant answer as I've just recently learned that computers have a secondary hard drive...and if this is possible, well then I'm thrilled to pieces because it's really all the data and programs I'm mourning. Thank you so much for responding.
 
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Thank you for responding! But I was told it would cost me over a hundred dollars to have my data removed from the computer and put on an flash drive. I was a little annoyed to say the least. I haven't done it yet because I'm not completely sold on them and intend to do some more digging.
 
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Yes, that might be what they would charge to do it. But if you're going to build/buy a new system, your existing drive can (probably) be plugged in and the data copied over, by you, for free.
 
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Well, I expect to receive in the mail a large gb flash drive from a savvy friend who also thinks I am able to shift data from the system onto it. The problem is I'm concerned if I somehow don't do this right, I may actually lose my 3k photos and then some. Never mind the data...and the apps I had hoped to keep. I've just been given a MAC too, an old one, so don't know if that's more headache or less. Thanks again!



 
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They should charge you. They have to dig thru all your files. It takes work. Just like an auto mechanic charges for his time. Do you work for free?
 
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Please do not suggest that I don't want to pay. I am willing to pay, bmacsys, but I want to know WHAT I am paying for. When I go to the car mechanic's and he tells me I need a *&^&*#, I ask him to explain himself before I fork over hard earned cash, and if his answer is shaky I wait til I speak to others on it. And, as my mother always said, if you have nothing good to say, don't say it.

Thank you logainofhades for your much-appreciated suggestion. I think my hard drive is SATA so I hope the installation switch will work. Many thanks!
 
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It should work just fine as a storage drive. Just as long as the boot order is done that the main drive that comes with the new system is the drive it tries to boot from first. I have multiple drives in my main rig. I run 2x 500gb Seagates in Raid 0, and am currently running a 2tb Samsung for storage. :D
 
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