New pc with my old HD ?

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I have an older HP pc, 1.9 ghz, 768 ram, but it's getting oldespecially sometimes at installing new software i get problems with it...
but anyway, i wanna build a new pc and still use old HardDrive, only because i have installed tons of samples, plug-ins, software....

or maybe just change the motherboard?
 
If it has problems while installing software, the hard drive may be the thing you want to replace.
 
you can do either way. If you get a new mother board (which most likely is NOT the problem) you'll have to upgrade the processor, the ram, etc. Might be just better off building a new computer if you know how.

But yes, you can use your old drive in the new computer. However, you probably won't want to run it as your system drive. Your problem is probably the OS/drive is just getting glitchy. You can either get a new computer and set the old drive as a slave, transfer everything over to a new drive, reinstall Windows on your old computer and see if that runs smooter (probably will)....

you'll want the old installation CDs for the software you have and want to keep though. It's not just as easy as copying and pasting the program folders to get it to work on a new drive.
 
I din't mention that:
I use external 200GB Drive for audio recording, and 90% of software is installed there, but of coarse all the registry info is stored in internal 50GB drive.

I was thinking about putting this 50GB harddrive as a secondary, but: 1)Will the PC handle 2 internal drives + 1 external
2)Since this 50GB drive has registry info and stuff on it, so if i put it as a secondary wouldn't those programs stop working...

Or maybe I should just replace a CPU (don't know if this old PC will accept new CPUs, and my PC has 2 memoery slots that take only 512MB Max each, I have one "default" 256 ram, and + I installed secong 512MB, total of 768)
 
Installing your OS and programs on different drives is a slippery slope and I'd highly discourage it.
 
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