>>Let me start all over and use the correct nomenclature. They are replacing the tower which I assume means "the whole thing". I am computer-challenged. At age 78 I do not have a peer group I can talk to about such things. Not an excuse but an explanation.<< Nothing unusual about that in any genealogy group I have ever met, including my computer aided genealogy group. You may well find that your peer group is here. Get a local guru to copy the entire hard drive before giving up the whole tower. Alternatively, have the hard drive removed before giving up the whole tower assembly. Either way it will not cost much, say $50-75. If you are in the boonies, the local high school teacher can recommend some bright young kid to do the work. My uncle, b 1914, (a retired maintainence man) is still computing since I got him going around 1989. Paul Studly Cleveland/Chesterland, OH paulstudly@studly.net -----Original Message----- From: Varick [mailto:tallygators@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 12:03 PM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [FO] CPU replacement Let me start all over and use the correct nomenclature. They are replacing the tower which I assume means "the whole thing". I am computer-challenged. At age 78 I do not have a peer group I can talk to about such things. Not an excuse but an explanation. Floreda -----Original Message----- From: Joyce Ragels [mailto:jragels@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:43 AM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FO] CPU replacement I know, but if a person was just replacing the CPU there should not be any loss of anything. We should all think of the CPU (Computer Processing Unit) as the box or outer covering of the other stuff. Being picky is how new terms are learned. You were not wrong in pointing that out. J Henry Terhune wrote: > Not trying to be picky but... a CPU is not the hard drive. > > >>Varick wrote: >> >>>We are replacing the CPU on this computer (just got this one in July and >>>I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we installed >>>this one). >>> >>> >>> >>>Floreda >>> >> > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. > > -- Joyce Ragels Tucson Arizona USA Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== PLEASE send personal replies and "THANK YOU" message privately. All messages on this list are archived and archiving takes up valuable space.