Not wishing to teach granny how to suck eggs but you could set your old hard
drive as the C: drive by installing it where the existing new drive plugs in.
The new drive can then be plugged in and act as an internal storage (usually
D:) drive. Swap as much data as possible from the old drive to the new and you
should have enough space for a reinstall of W7, PS6 or whatever route you
choose.
> On 24/02/2024 17:25 GMT John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> Bookmarked that link. I may be able to find the part from Amazon in the
> U.S. if I need it, but having the part bookmarked gives me the NAME to
> look up.
>
> On 2/24/2024 1:47 AM, mike wilson wrote:
> > Transfer the guts of the new machine to the case of the old. You should be
> > able to either plug the drive straight into the motherboard via an existing
> > socket or use a card in one of the PCIE slots. For example:
> > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rivo-Controller-Expansion-Profile-Non-Raid/dp/B0828FY1B2/ref=sr_1_4
> >> On 23/02/2024 17:11 GMT John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I'll look into both possibilities.
> >>
> >> The hard part is going to be figuring out if I actually have the media
> >> for Photoshop CS6 Extended and if so where did I put it when I moved?
> >>
> >> I hope I don't have to replace the Photoshop computer. For one thing, it
> >> has a LightScribe Blue-ray/DVD/CDROM burner & new computers you can't
> >> even get a DVD player.
> >>
> >> They don't even build the chassis with a bay to install one anymore.
> >>
> >> On 2/22/2024 4:21 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
> >>> Since Win7 was working for you have you considered backing everything up
> >>> and re-installing Win7? If all you use that computer for is photo
> >>> processing there shouldn't be a lot of software to re-install.
> >>>
> >>> OTOH, if you have a computer running (or able to run) Win10, Win10 has a
> >>> compatibility mode that you can activate that allows you to run aged
> >>> games and software.
> >>>
> >>> -p
> >>>
> >>> On 2/21/2024 6:54 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> >>>> I spent today doing some maintenance on my photography - making sure I
> >>>> have all of my images copied off of the memory cards onto the computer
> >>>> & batch renaming by Camera Type & Sequence Number ... so that IMGP5432
> >>>> from the K-2 becomes K3-05432
> >>>>
> >>>> Part of the reason for this is the default for Pentax Raw files is
> >>>> "IMGP"nnnn and a couple of my cameras have rolled over past 9999 and
> >>>> the K-1 numbering was reset when I had to send it in for repair after
> >>>> I fell & yanked the screen off the back.
> >>>>
> >>>> So it's K10D-1nnnn, K20D-0nnnn, K-3-0nnnn & K-1-1nnnn ... I pretty
> >>>> much kept up with it WHILE I was downloading images from the camera up
> >>>> until Covid (when I got lazy and sometimes wouldn't download the
> >>>> images for months after I took them)
> >>>>
> >>>> ANYWAY - The K-3 has been giving me fits downloading images today.
> >>>> Adobe Bridge "get media" seems to fail after pulling down about 8
> >>>> images. I'm having the same problem directly copying from the card to
> >>>> the computer - 8 images & an error.
> >>>>
> >>>> When the error comes Windoze says the DCIM folder is empty & can't
> >>>> even see the card to eject it. If I just pull the card reader out &
> >>>> plug it in again the sub-folders are still there in DCIM and I can go
> >>>> into the sub-folder and copy images manually ... but if I select more
> >>>> than 8 at a time it's going to have the same error copying.
> >>>>
> >>>> If I just select 8 images they seem to copy fine and then I can select
> >>>> 8 more and they'll copy, but rarely works for a third batch of 8.
> >>>> Repeat remove & reinsert & select the next 8 ...
> >>>>
> >>>> I only had the problem with the K-3 cards - 2-32GB Sandisk Extreme
> >>>> SDHC and 1-32GB Sandisk Ultra SDXC.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm pretty sure I only lost a single image to corruption. Sucks, but
> >>>> at least it's not worse. I copied all the images over to my file server.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't know if it's the camera, the cards, the card reader or the
> >>>> computer. I hope it's not the computer because it's Windows 7 &
> >>>> Photoshop CS6 Extended (which I don't think will run on Windoze 10 &
> >>>> Windoze 10 definitely would not install on this computer (I shall not
> >>>> repeat my previous rant about the attempt to install Windows 10 ...)
> >>>>
> >>>> I'll shut the Photoshop computer down tomorrow, open it up & give it a
> >>>> good cleaning inside & see where we go from here.
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