Oooh wonderfully informative reply, thanks!
Dangit. So ... the old Seagate can only be used for storage, an external hard drive?
I'll have a look at the chassis - hopefully there will be key label on there. We didn't upgrade to W10.
We have the installation software but it was reusing the license that concerned me - wouldn't the license be shown as used, thereby preventing us from using it again
We'd only be using it on the one device, which is why we'd need to somehow get it off the old hard drive. Likewise with Inventor, Microsoft, and other software like Norton, PDF Professional, etc.
Erm ... a clean installation?!
So we couldn't get everything bar the hard drive, then just connect this one (Seagate Barracuda) to it? Dangit. Really thought it would be as simple as that.
The old PC was Windows 7 - pretty certain it came with the PC.
When you say "a key" - do you mean like...
All the software (AutoCAD, Microsoft, etc.) is on the original hard drive that we have removed from the previous chassis, but we don't know how to transfer licenses.
There wouldn't be any rendering or anything, just CAD work.
We have a tower which worked well with AutoCAD, but the motherboard (ASUS A55M-K??) suddenly died. The VGA connection just stopped working one day when we switched the PC on. We tried different cables - they worked elsewhere so it's not them.
Does the attached help?! It was bought six years ago.
Woooaaah, lots of technical stuff there! Sorry, it's whooshed over my head.
It would just be for the tower. We've got a CAD monitor, and a keyboard and mouse.
Looking to spend about £1k but I'm guessing that won't be enough?!?
Greetings all - first time poster here (be gentle!).
We're looking to buy a CAD workstation that can work smoothly with AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor (small assemblies), and possibly MicroStation.
No idea about specs, graphics cards, etc. - no idea about much really - but we've got a 3.5" hard...