We used to connect our hard drives to a "golden" PC to grab all the files and then reconnect them to our locals. Back in the IDE/SATA era this was pretty easy t

We used to connect our hard drives to a "golden" PC to grab all the files and then reconnect them to our locals. Back in the IDE/SATA era this was pretty easy to do as some of us had controllers that could hot swap. About half of the time something would go wrong with this and we'd wind up teaching someone how to reinstall windows.