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I bought a PC in 1999 when I started university. It became obsolete a few years ago and I got a new laptop. Its been sitting in my spare room…

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Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:22:27 +0000

luddite is correct - you plug the USB end of the USB/IDE converter into the working computer, the other end into the defunct hard drive and then transfer the data across. It arrives on Wednesday so I'll see hoe it goes.

After that I can finally bin that old computer!

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