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Old hard drive into new computer to save files

My old computer’s motherboard died. I would like to move the old hard drive to the new computer to save my files. The old hard drive has XP and the new one has Vista.

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It is possible to put the old hard drive into the new computer in addition to the drive already there. You then could have a choice when your computer is booting as to which drive/OS you want to open.

I don’t know the ins and outs of it but you could probably find more information by searching on Google. I think the name of the program that gives you the choice is Boot Magic. I know I have both XP and 98 in my computer, even on the same hard drive (using partitioning).

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