[TechAssist] Re: Computer question,XP and ME

  • From: Gary McCartney <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:58:26 -0500

You can get a conversion kit, to convert the laptop 2 1/2 inch hard
drive to fit in a desktop computer. Then you can copy all your personal
files off of that drive to a CD or DVD.

I would choose XP over ME any day. Win ME is like a botched up windows
98 update which they brought on the market in a rush because they ran
out of time to make Windows 2000 both for business and consumer use.
Thus they had to wait for XP to be made for both business and consumer.
I actually prefer Windows 2000 over any of the others. In the win 2000
service packs, they have upgraded some of the compatibilty issues with
consumer software and probably all new software put on the market is win
2000 compatible.



Gary McCartney

McCartney Electronics
Guelph Ontario Canada 
Est. 1984
email: gary (at) number63.ca





"Ron Miller d.b.a. Country TV" wrote:
> 
>  A friend of mine has a Compaq laptop that has a bad mother board all of his
> business info is on it.
>  He purchased a new Compaq laptop with Windows XP on it.
>  He swapped the hard drives and the XP unit comes up in safe mode.I know
> that ME is FAT32 and XP is NTFS.
>  Is there a way to use the old ( ME ) hard drive so he can back-up his data?
>  He is going to bring the new one and the old one in later today,thanks.
> Country TV
> Ron Miller
> Inez, TX. 77968
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