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I guess it was bound to happen, but my 9 year old COMPAQ finally died today. I have been nursing it along for the last few years slowly swapping out parts and upgrading it to keep up. Today the fan went into overdrive like teh CPU was overheating, so I let the fan run until it slowed, then opened her up to clean out the dust figuring teh heat sink for teh CPU was covered over again. I blew the dust out of it, and I guess teh CPU was still to hot and died on me. I unhooked everything internal and got the motherboard to boot up for a few minutes and do a ram check, and then it died during that and does nothing at all now. I'm going to order a new DELL 570 I think, but what is the easiest way to save teh data on my hard drives? I have them out already, but it's been awhile and I didn't know if I should just wait till I get my new PC and then hook them in 1 at a time to back them up that way or if there was ana adapter maybe that would allow me to hook them in as external ones to save the data.