replacing old pc

 A turn of the millenia pc i had became unusable and no longer worth
maintaining, however I held onto the harddrive and what I thought might
be helpful interior connectors.  Would it be cost effective and
rewarding to buy and assemble new pc components together with the old
hd?

 
mwmiller314@gmail.com wrote:

No. If you have to ask the question you will be devestated trying to
assemble a computer. It will be crap if it even works at all.
 However, the old hard drive, which is probably tiny, could be useful.
You could add it as an extra drive. You could copy data over from it to
the new.

 
mwmiller314@gmail.com wrote:

Several companies will sell "barebones" kits that are basically a
supply of parts that you put together yourself. Often they are a
collection of items they need to blow out, so there can be some
bargoons.

What won't be included is an operating system.

But generally you get a motherboard, CPU, often a case and power
supply.

I like tigerdirect.com. Others will no doubt have their favs.

You should consider using the old HD as a second disk in your system.
New HDs are relatively cheap and faster than what you have, but your
old drive can be useful to back up your system.

Another alternative is to buy refuribished systems.  I bought a refurb
pretty cheaply when you factor in the cost of the OS. They come with
warranties, and mine was a factory refurb - sent back to the factory,
retested, reboxed. Again, you can install your old drive in it and away
you go.


James

 
mwmiller314@gmail.com wrote:

I have already a Windows ME machine,
but when I saw ad for
Win XP machine with DVD player and CD RW for $200.00,
with full warranty and retrun priv I bought it from CompUSA.
See
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  mwmiller314@gmail.com wrote:


What's the capacity of the old hard drive and how fast is it? Chances
are, your hard drive is not worth saving. New hard drives are fairly
inexpensive if you shop around. If you need to read old data off that
old hard drive, you can buy a USB 2 external disk drive enclosure to
house the drive. You can than plug it in and read the data, then replace
that drive with something larger to use for backup purposes.