On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 6:59 PM William Park via talk <
talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 05:40:05PM -0400, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
> Alex Beamish via talk wrote:
> > There are, however, still a few files on the dead system I'd like to get.
> > Today I took that system apart, popped the fan off the CPU, and found dried
> > thermal paste. Hmm.
>
> A better bet if you're just trying to recover files is to get an
> appropriate USB external enclosure for the old system's storage device,
> put them together, and plug into your new system for review and copying.
Or, just move the harddisk to the current machine.
I would have done that already, but the system I'm using now has compact power plugs, and the previous has the old style four conductor power plugs -- otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered the list with this question.