Hi, I'm the hopeless one with the dead motherboard. That computer has two harddrives that I've used as a main and backup using "Ghost" software. Unfortunately, I have a lot of software on that drive, including my Rocket Librarian, many of my unfinished novel manuscripts, my screenplay and most of my quilt business artwork. With no motherboard I can't get to that material, and some of it is irreplaceable.
There is nothing wrong with either harddrive. Both are working just fine. It was suggested that I take the primary harddrive out of the dead computer and make it a slave drive to my working Pentium III desktop.
I don't know how to do that--or even if the harddrive will fit in the tower anywhere except sitting on the tower floor.
Does anyone know how to attach a harddrive and designate it as a slave? I'm not in a position to buy a new computer system and get a data dump right now, and I'm concerned that offloading the data onto CD's will affect the operation of the software.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Elise in Lynchburg, Virginia