Not wishing to teach granny how to suck eggs but you could set your old hard drive as the C: drive by installing it where the existing new drive plugs in. The new drive can then be plugged in and act as an internal storage (usually D:) drive. Swap as much data as possible from the old drive to the new and you should have enough space for a reinstall of W7, PS6 or whatever route you choose. > On 24/02/2024 17:25 GMT John Sessoms <jsessoms002@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > > Bookmarked that link. I may be able to find the part from Amazon in the > U.S. if I need it, but having the part bookmarked gives me the NAME to > look up. > > On 2/24/2024 1:47 AM, mike wilson wrote: > > Transfer the guts of the new machine to the case of the old. You should be able to either plug the drive straight into the motherboard via an existing socket or use a card in one of the PCIE slots. For example: > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rivo-Controller-Expansion-Profile-Non-Raid/dp/B0828FY1B2/ref=sr_1_4 > >> On 23/02/2024 17:11 GMT John Sessoms <jsessoms002@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> I'll look into both possibilities. > >> > >> The hard part is going to be figuring out if I actually have the media > >> for Photoshop CS6 Extended and if so where did I put it when I moved? > >> > >> I hope I don't have to replace the Photoshop computer. For one thing, it > >> has a LightScribe Blue-ray/DVD/CDROM burner & new computers you can't > >> even get a DVD player. > >> > >> They don't even build the chassis with a bay to install one anymore. > >> > >> On 2/22/2024 4:21 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: > >>> Since Win7 was working for you have you considered backing everything up > >>> and re-installing Win7?  If all you use that computer for is photo > >>> processing there shouldn't be a lot of software to re-install. > >>> > >>> OTOH, if you have a computer running (or able to run) Win10, Win10 has a > >>> compatibility mode that you can activate that allows you to run aged > >>> games and software. > >>> > >>> -p > >>> > >>> On 2/21/2024 6:54 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > >>>> I spent today doing some maintenance on my photography - making sure I > >>>> have all of my images copied off of the memory cards onto the computer > >>>> & batch renaming by Camera Type & Sequence Number ... so that IMGP5432 > >>>> from the K-2 becomes K3-05432 > >>>> > >>>> Part of the reason for this is the default for Pentax Raw files is > >>>> "IMGP"nnnn and a couple of my cameras have rolled over past 9999 and > >>>> the K-1 numbering was reset when I had to send it in for repair after > >>>> I fell & yanked the screen off the back. > >>>> > >>>> So it's K10D-1nnnn, K20D-0nnnn, K-3-0nnnn & K-1-1nnnn ... I pretty > >>>> much kept up with it WHILE I was downloading images from the camera up > >>>> until Covid (when I got lazy and sometimes wouldn't download the > >>>> images for months after I took them) > >>>> > >>>> ANYWAY - The K-3 has been giving me fits downloading images today. > >>>> Adobe Bridge "get media" seems to fail after pulling down about 8 > >>>> images. I'm having the same problem directly copying from the card to > >>>> the computer - 8 images & an error. > >>>> > >>>> When the error comes Windoze says the DCIM folder is empty & can't > >>>> even see the card to eject it. If I just pull the card reader out & > >>>> plug it in again the sub-folders are still there in DCIM and I can go > >>>> into the sub-folder and copy images manually ... but if I select more > >>>> than 8 at a time it's going to have the same error copying. > >>>> > >>>> If I just select 8 images they seem to copy fine and then I can select > >>>> 8 more and they'll copy, but rarely works for a third batch of 8. > >>>> Repeat remove & reinsert & select the next 8 ... > >>>> > >>>> I only had the problem with the K-3 cards - 2-32GB Sandisk Extreme > >>>> SDHC and 1-32GB Sandisk Ultra SDXC. > >>>> > >>>> I'm pretty sure I only lost a single image to corruption. Sucks, but > >>>> at least it's not worse. I copied all the images over to my file server. > >>>> > >>>> I don't know if it's the camera, the cards, the card reader or the > >>>> computer. I hope it's not the computer because it's Windows 7 & > >>>> Photoshop CS6 Extended (which I don't think will run on Windoze 10 & > >>>> Windoze 10 definitely would not install on this computer (I shall not > >>>> repeat my previous rant about the attempt to install Windows 10 ...) > >>>> > >>>> I'll shut the Photoshop computer down tomorrow, open it up & give it a > >>>> good cleaning inside & see where we go from here.

UPDATE: It appears the problem WAS in the card reader. I still haven't figured out why it was only affecting cards from the K-3? On 2/21/2024 7:54 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > ANYWAY - The K-3 has been giving me fits downloading images today. Adobe > Bridge "get media" seems to fail after pulling down about 8 images. I'm > having the same problem directly copying from the card to the computer - > 8 images & an error. > -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com