"-Cryogenic-©" wrote in message
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jim wrote:

No, the most painless solution is the one I described in my opening
post if
all the details can be worked out.

I'm looking for folks who might want to contribute to fully describing
that
solutions as it appears to be nearly at hand.

Maybe you should take some suggestions from some folks who know what
they're doing.

I do know what I'm doing. I'm trying to find some real experts on the
issue. There seems to be a paucity of those here.

You keep saying /your/ solution is the easiest, 'most
painless' solution, when it obviously isn't.

Cluelessness abounds.

First, you mention swapping out the mobo, then you go on to explain that
you're really interested in putting the harddrive in a completely
different PC. Not the same thing is it?

WRONG, they are nearly equivalent operations logically.

You've been given some pretty painless solutions by the nice folks in
this group.

I invite anyone to read the whole thread.