On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 18:22:17 -0400, "Ralph Mowery"
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Buy one of those plug in external USB hard drives, and back up all your
data . Then you can either buy a new hard drive for your existing
computer, or another computer. Once the operating system is installed
on the new HD or computer, you can copy your data back. However, your
programs will need to be re-installed. Do this soon, if your HD is
failing. Once it fails, you'll lose everything. You can buy those USB
drives online, at computer stores, or even Walmart. They are not that
costly.

How do you know your HD is failing anyhow?

Outlook Express has always sucked, but that's just my opinion.
Thunderbird is free and works well for email.

Yea, you can keep your monitor as well as printer, keyboard, mouse etc.

Depending on how much data is on the computer, one of the Thumb USB drives
may also work for less money.

I would not bet that the old keyboard and mouse can be used with a much
newer computer. More of the newer ones come with USB ports and his is
probably old enough to use the round connectors.

I just got in a computer BOX from ebay from $ 90 shipped . It has Win XP
Pro installed plus the COA on the box,a DVD RW 160 GB hard drive, 3 GB speed
and 1 GB of memory. Put in an order for 2 more DDR2 memory for about $ 12.
Had to go to the store to get a keyboard and mouse as the only spare ones I
had at home were the round plugs and that one needed the USB. I think that
computer was made in 2006 from the Dell site info.

I still like Outlook Express for the email I do.


Im using a USB keyboard on an older computer, by using an adaptor. They
do sell them. It converts from USB to the old round plug (the small
round one, not those huge ones they used on the real old computers of
386 era.

I should have thought what I said about printers. I have an old laser
printer that works on Win98, but not on Win2K or XP. No drivers
available. But as little as I print, I'll just copy the stuff to my W98
machine to print it. No big deal.

Yea, I just saw some 128 Gig flash drives on Ebay. I never thought it
would be possible to get 128G on such a tiny stick.... Heck, when they
came out with 16G, I thought that was about the limit. But those 128g
are about $50. For that price, I'll just buy a 500G external hard
drive, or for a few more $$$, a 1TB.