I am pretty sure they are but also wondered if I could pull my hard drive from an emachine with a bad motherboard and stick it into a gateway computer with no hard drive? will this work or do i need to pay someone to recover stuff from my hard drive?
2006-07-14 08:39:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Yes.
2006-07-14 08:46:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Are emachine parts (monitor, mouse, keyboard) compatible with other computers like Dell, or Compaq?
I am pretty sure they are but also wondered if I could pull my hard drive from an emachine with a bad motherboard and stick it into a gateway computer with no hard drive? will this work or do i need to pay someone to recover stuff from my hard drive?
2015-08-16 16:50:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-03 14:47:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-12 08:49:09 · answer #4 · answered by campell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monitor, keyboards, mice (mouses what is the plural of a computer mouse?) will all work if the cable will fit. The HD is a different story. Like Hardirish said just slapping it on another PC might not work. When an OS is installed it checks out what the rest of the PC (motherboard, USB, etc..) looks like, and stores in a file (HAL). If the HAL doesn't match the specs of the new motherboard, it won't work. The motherboards don't have to be exact replicas but they can't be totally different either. Doesn't hurt to try.
2006-07-14 18:04:22 · answer #5 · answered by Oograh 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should have no troble with this, assuming the hard drives aren't some funky types. I don't think a basic dell/emachine/gateway would use strange hardware. The monitor, mouse, and keyboard will all work (unless the mouse/keyboard are USB and the gateway doesn't support USB... highly unlikely)
2006-07-14 09:51:47 · answer #6 · answered by travis_b7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only problem you may run into is that you will have to most likely reload whatever operating system on the drive in order to access. If the other machine already has a hard drive loaded, then you should be able to slave this drive to it and recover data from it. Alot of times with windows loads you cant access the drive due to the fact that the motherboard is different and windows cant resolve to the new motherboard in order to boot. But if you are using it as a slave drive then there is no issue. Would sugget if you are having to reload that you simply install on top of the exisiting installation so as not to loose personal files by formatting
2006-07-14 08:49:03 · answer #7 · answered by hardirish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You shouldn't have any problems swapping the HD from an emachine into another computer.
2006-07-14 08:45:02 · answer #8 · answered by knieveltech 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most PC parts are interchangable as long as they use the same base technology (USB, IDE, PCI, etc.)
2006-07-14 08:48:08 · answer #9 · answered by John J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you just need the right cable (VGA, DVI, HDMI, etc), the right graphics card outputs, and the right monitor inputs.
2016-03-13 21:43:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋