fredmila

Oh dear, I think it is worse than I thought. I took the PC to a shop and they tested the hardware separately: MB, hard disks, cards, nothing works. They believe the PS had a surge or something and blew the hardware. I had the good sense to create images of the hard disks with the Norton utility. Can these be re-installed in another machine that can run Windows 2000? Do I need to install Win 2000 separately or will the new PC recognise the Win2000 OS in the C disk image?

Hello, I am a newbie to this forum (not to computing) I have an old (and I mean old, more than ten years old) ATX PC, which is faulty. The PS blew, I replaced it and there is power going in but no signal going out. I fear the old PS damaged the mother board. The thing about this PC is that it has software applications that will only work with the OS I have on it (Win 2000) they will not work with the latest Windows versions and I cannot afford to replace the software applications. I even lost the Win2000 and some of the software installation disks. Already one of them needs to recognise the hardware (mother board I think, with any luck the network card) to work, so I will need to see how much I have to pay the software company for them to give me a new key to get the software working with a new mother board. My question here is, what are the chances of getting the hard disks, with the OS and software applications they have on them, working with a new mother board, perhaps a much more recent one? It could even be a matter of transferring the hard disks to a new ATX case with mother board. Thanks