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Swapping a hard drive with XP and PC-Dmis 4.1 to a similar PC?

badhorsie

I have a newer hard drive with XP and Pc-Dmis 4.1 on an older PC that is having issues. I would like to put this hard drive into a newer (similar) PC, is this something that will require a brain surgeon or is it somewhat seamless to do? I searched around here and seen a lot of people with crashed hard drives and starting from scratch but I have a good hard drive with everything in tact and working, the PC is just old and tired. My IT guy says he can find a very similar model that my hard drive will work in with XP.

Anyone tried doing this?

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    Just wanted to get back on here and thank everyone for their contributions. I have learned a lot about this process that could certainly be helpful in the future. A lot of really good knowledge shared here.

    The problem was eventually isolated to burned up capacitors on the mother board. They swapped some new capacitors in and everything is running as it should now.

    So, back up and running in 4.1, which I am very happy with, I don't use the reporting features in PC-Dmis, I use a macro in Excel to strip the raw data out and place into a 'usable' reporting format so newer versions of PC-Dmis was never something I wanted. Or pay extra for. Heck, I ran Umess-UX on Unix for 10 years before moving to PC-Dmis and we never updating anything, just stripped the raw data out and did what we needed with it. 

    All is good for now. Thank you guys!

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    Just wanted to get back on here and thank everyone for their contributions. I have learned a lot about this process that could certainly be helpful in the future. A lot of really good knowledge shared here.

    The problem was eventually isolated to burned up capacitors on the mother board. They swapped some new capacitors in and everything is running as it should now.

    So, back up and running in 4.1, which I am very happy with, I don't use the reporting features in PC-Dmis, I use a macro in Excel to strip the raw data out and place into a 'usable' reporting format so newer versions of PC-Dmis was never something I wanted. Or pay extra for. Heck, I ran Umess-UX on Unix for 10 years before moving to PC-Dmis and we never updating anything, just stripped the raw data out and did what we needed with it. 

    All is good for now. Thank you guys!

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