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Today I went to a huge yard sale with some friends to see if they had cheap computer parts to kinda "decorate" my room with. I came across a pretty good one and bought it for $15. Everything looked good, so I decided to hook it up to my monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It's from 2001 and seemed to boot normally and showed the "loading windows XP" screen.

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It loaded that for about 30 seconds, then went to a black screen. I'd like to see whats on that HDD-any ideas as to how to do that?

Should I take the HDD out of my computer and put this one in?

"Do as I say, not as I do." 

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Just put the HDD into your computer and inspect it from your OS. That's what I've done when rescuing files from laptops

#RIPTopGear  This is the best thread ever: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/53190-i-can-not-get-hard/ " French meetings are just people sitting in a semi-circle shouting at each other" -Dom Jolly  :lol:

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Clean the CPU cooler. It may get to hot and shuts down.

Mineral oil and 40 kg aluminium heat sinks are a perfect combination: 73 cores and a Titan X, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Oil

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Careful putting the CPU into your PC. Take unhook any other drives, in case this drive has some shit on it you don't want infecting your drives.

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Careful putting the CPU into your PC. Take unhook any other drives, in case this drive has some shit on it you don't want infecting your drives.

With CPU you mean HDD. I think

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With CPU you mean HDD. I think

>_>

 

English is hard, okay?

Gaming Build:

CPU: Ryzen 7 3800x   |  GPU: Asus ROG STRIX 2080 SUPER Advanced (2115Mhz Core | 9251Mhz Memory) |  Motherboard: Asus X570 TUF GAMING-PLUS  |  RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 3600MHz 16GB  |  PSU: Corsair RM850x  |  Storage: 1TB ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro, 250GB Samsung 840 Evo, 500GB Samsung 840 Evo  |  Cooler: Corsair H115i Pro XT  |  Case: Lian Li PC-O11

 

Peripherals:

Monitor: LG 34GK950F  |  Sound: Sennheiser HD 598  |  Mic: Blue Yeti  |  Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB Platinum  |  Mouse: Logitech G502

 

Laptop:

Asus ROG Zephryus G15

Ryzen 7 4800HS, GTX1660Ti, 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz, 512GB nVME, 144hz

 

NAS:

QNAP TS-451

6TB Ironwolf Pro

 

 

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What do you mean by clean install?

As in reinstall it. fresh copy. :)

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Yeah try cleaning out the system. Maybe reapplying thermal paste? 

#RIPTopGear  This is the best thread ever: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/53190-i-can-not-get-hard/ " French meetings are just people sitting in a semi-circle shouting at each other" -Dom Jolly  :lol:

My rig: 

   CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz | GPU: GTX 760 reference | PSU: Corsair RM750 | Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V | Motherboard: Gigabyte B85M D3H | Case: NZXT S340 White | RAM: 8GB EVO Potenza @ 1600MHz | Storage: 3TB Seagate HDD, 60GB OCZ SSD, 620GB Toshiba HDD | Mouse: Steelseries Rival @1000 CPi |  OS: Windows 10 Pro | Phone: iPhone 6S 16GB  
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Yeah try cleaning out the system. Maybe reapplying thermal paste? 

Yes the thermal paste will be dryed out for sure.

Mineral oil and 40 kg aluminium heat sinks are a perfect combination: 73 cores and a Titan X, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Oil

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try to do a clean install of XP if you can.

 

That would wipe all of the data off of the drive. He wants to see what's on the HDD.

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"


 


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>_>

 

English is hard, okay?

i know. *hugs*

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I 2nd the Linux idea. Just Google search for Linux boot drive, grab a spare usb stick and in minutes you should be going.

The Linux os can be run off the usb stick, preserving the old Hdd & it's info

I got the Universal USB Installer and selected Ubuntu,but what is a ubuntu*desktop*.iso?

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