Assuming there's no damage to the old drive, this should be a really
easy transfer if you want to do it yourself.

http://lifehacker.com/253847/alpha-geek-turn-an-old-hard-drive-into-an-external-drive

My sympathies on your loss.

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Bob in Jersey <bob.in.jer...@juno.com> wrote:
> Well, our eMachines lasted just over four years. (I introduced it at
> http://goo.gl/udELH)
>
> I finally got the opportunity to change the thermal compound on the
> CPU fan/heatsink assembly, but after I re-latched it to the frame
> around the processor (it has a lever-and-hook with two hooks) and
> tried to restart the machine, the frame cracked loose and the whole
> shebang dropped to the bottom of the case, cracking off almost half
> the wings of the fan and scattering four screws that looked like they
> were holding the frame.
>
> I couldn't sleep; it's like you've lost a member of the family.
>
> I still would like to know how that hucking frame attached to the
> motherboard, and so does Dad.
>
> He was understandably p!ssed, tho not to the point of wanting to bust
> my head open. Part of him, of course, wants to blame me, but I don't
> know that things would have been any different had I left the shards
> of the fan and the screws inside the case with the service door
> closed.
>
> We went to a BBY and got -- isn't life strange -- another Compaq. I'm
> guessing it runs Win7. It might have a T-byte hard drive (six times
> what the e had)
>
> Now we need to figure out how to transfer stuff from the old drive to
> the new; part of me wants to ask Dad's ISP, who also sells and repairs
> PCs, to help.
>
>
>
> --
> a very depressed BOB
>
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