2007-03-11 04:26:44 · 8 answers · asked by TONY D 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Best way is to remove the hard drive and place in a USB caddy and then this simply becomes a second, but easily accessible, additional hard drive with masses of storage room. I know of no other areas of your old PC that can be used for additional storage apart from the above. If you old PC is not too old, you could probably sell the RAM memory as well, on eBay for example. But the rest will probably be redundant.
2007-03-11 04:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had the same idea and decided against it after I got conflicting reports.I was told in my local pc shop that allI had to do was to buy a cable for 14pounds and use the windows transfare wizard connect the two. A different branch of the same firm told me that this wouldn't work and I would have to buy a different cable and I would need a piece of soft ware to do the job. So being a bit stingy I elected to go down the road of buying a separate external hard drive and I would not be wasting money on cables that might or might not work.
2007-03-11 05:34:29 · answer #2 · answered by yogi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could turn you old PC into a Network Attached Storage box.
http://www.serverelements.com/naslite.php
naslite is a Linux solution (one small enough to run from a floppy disc) that will turn your PC into a Network Storage device.
You can choose from ftp, SMB etc.
2007-03-11 05:00:18 · answer #3 · answered by David P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, go with Michael P & plonk your old hard drive into a caddy to make a big USB storage device. Means you don't have to have your entire old pc hanging around & taking up desk space.
2007-03-11 06:26:14 · answer #4 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take the harddrive out of the old one and put in the new one as a slave. This will invalidate any warranty if you do it yourself so an alternative is to buy a usb adapter for the hard drive and connect it that way. You can buy these cheaply on ebay!
2007-03-11 04:32:06 · answer #5 · answered by Shadygoingson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set up a "home network" then you can share the harddrive for use of the other machine as storage space.
2007-03-11 04:30:34 · answer #6 · answered by Robert W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 2 way to use it, 1st take our the HDD from your Old & attach it to the new one or creat a home network between your old & new pcs, but you need to on both the pcs which makes no sence. So I feel you should go for the 1st one, which will also save your time, power (electricity).
2007-03-11 06:15:11 · answer #7 · answered by Jairam K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be careful to disconnect from the Internet when you are using links to another computer.
It is too expensive to get virus protection of more than one machine, although there is a couple of good free progs on the web.
2007-03-11 09:04:47 · answer #8 · answered by jimgdad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋