22-09-2015, 11:00 PM
If I had a computer that was that bad it would just be fitted with a new hard drive with a clean install of the operating system and then put the old hard drive back in with the slave jumper on if it has one to recover the personal data.
If you do buy one of those machines that are for sale it aught to have a spare bay for expansion that the old drive can go in for data retrieval.
Some motherboards no longer have IDE ports on them. I worked around this by chopping the USB plug off one of those cheap boxes that you plug hard drives into and hard wired it to a header that fitted a spare USB port on the motherboard.
If you do buy one of those machines that are for sale it aught to have a spare bay for expansion that the old drive can go in for data retrieval.
Some motherboards no longer have IDE ports on them. I worked around this by chopping the USB plug off one of those cheap boxes that you plug hard drives into and hard wired it to a header that fitted a spare USB port on the motherboard.
