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Thread #163958 Message #3917769
Posted By: BobL
17-Apr-18 - 03:20 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Dead PC? XP Professional
Subject: RE: Tech: Dead PC? XP Professional
Ten years ago, hard drives used the SATA interface which is still current. So one possibility, something I did when one of my own XP systems died, is to extract the hard drive, and install it in another computer - not necessarily running XP - as a secondary drive. The bootable bits won't be used but with any luck the data will still be accessible.