Originally Posted by: puremaybe i can take out the old harddrive and put it in the second hard disk slot of the new machine and just move the stuff I wanna keep onto the other disk?

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You can do that as well provided there's a second spot in your new machine. Remember to change the pin configuration on the second hard drive from master to slave. You should be able to find diagrams online. Afterwards, go in to CMOS and autodetect (Windows may be able to do this for you booting up normally).