- Nov 17, 2009
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I have a 3 year old ACER computer. I used to use it as my own. I just recently built my own gaming rig, so I do not need it any longer. I decided to give it to my mom, since her computer is ancient. She said she needs to keep all her data she has, so I decided that I would just open up her ancient computer, take her HDD, and pop it in my old computer, and wahla, it would work. Guess not. Her hardrive is so old, it uses that long 20 pin (i think 20 maybe smaller or larger) connector that the optical disk drive uses. Its slightly different though because on her connector, it has one hole missing in the middle. Anyways, I tried connecting it, turned it on, and it brought me to the screen where I could select start windows normally, safe mode, and the other options. I chose to start it normally. I hit it, it loaded for a few seconds, flashed a blue screen for about half a second, then restarted. It just goes through the same process over and over again. What is wrong here? Is there any way to maybe buy a new HDD, and transfer the data from hers to the new one, so she saves all of her emails and documents? My old computer (the one im trying to give her) used to use Windows vista 32 bit, if that matters. It had an AMD chipset, used athlon I believe, her ancient one I believe used intel, that shouldnt matter though for the hardrive, righht? Oh by the way I cant boot into safe mode either the same thing happens
I have a 3 year old ACER computer. I used to use it as my own. I just recently built my own gaming rig, so I do not need it any longer. I decided to give it to my mom, since her computer is ancient. She said she needs to keep all her data she has, so I decided that I would just open up her ancient computer, take her HDD, and pop it in my old computer, and wahla, it would work. Guess not. Her hardrive is so old, it uses that long 20 pin (i think 20 maybe smaller or larger) connector that the optical disk drive uses. Its slightly different though because on her connector, it has one hole missing in the middle. Anyways, I tried connecting it, turned it on, and it brought me to the screen where I could select start windows normally, safe mode, and the other options. I chose to start it normally. I hit it, it loaded for a few seconds, flashed a blue screen for about half a second, then restarted. It just goes through the same process over and over again. What is wrong here? Is there any way to maybe buy a new HDD, and transfer the data from hers to the new one, so she saves all of her emails and documents? My old computer (the one im trying to give her) used to use Windows vista 32 bit, if that matters. It had an AMD chipset, used athlon I believe, her ancient one I believe used intel, that shouldnt matter though for the hardrive, righht? Oh by the way I cant boot into safe mode either the same thing happens
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