How to combine two scripts into one?

How do I combine components from two towers to build one computer?

• My husband is great at building and repairing things and working on cars, but has very little knowledge of computers. I am computer saavy, but not when it comes to the inside. Earlier this year, my old computer quit working. The hard drive, I believe it was-I think a file was corrupt or something like that. Anyway, this computer was several years old but was pretty top of the line when I bought it. At the time, though, instead of purchasing a new computer or putting a hard drive in that one, we bought a used tower (partly because my old computer was in the shop for a while-I was hoping they could recover some files for me). The new one is a Dell case, I believe, but has a hodge podge of parts in it that the man created. The old one, by the way, was a HP. Well, a couple of weeks ago the power supply went out on the replacement tower. My husband and I managed to open up both towers, and remove the power supply from the old one to the new one and everything is now up and running great. I am quite proud of myself;) So-would it be just as easy to mix the other parts? And if so, should I put parts into the tower with the working hard drive or the working hard drive in the other tower, with the parts that I want? The old, non working tower has a built in multi-card reader, a DVD writer and player, etc. We also homeschool our children, and I see this as a great science project as they were quite interested in everything we were doing when we were working on teh towers. Any advice, or sources of information that would be helpful would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time!

• Answer:

  In short.. Yes. You should be able to easily have 2 hard drives and 2 CD/DVD drives in the working PC, and possibly a stick or 2 of the RAM if it's compatible. The only thing you need to be wary of is that in order for all drives to be seen properly, there has to be a Host and a Slave drive. There is a Jumper on the back of the hard drives/CD drives. This jumper can be placed on either Slave, Master or Cable Select. Just be sure to move that jumper to the appropriate selection for the drives. Each Cable chould have a connection for 2 drives. As far as the RAM.. Your Motherboard may have 2-4 RAM slots. If you have extra slots for RAM, check the RAM in the "Parts PC" and check if it's the same type. If so, you could add another stick or 2 from the bad PC to the Good PC for added performance. *put simply, pull one stick out of both PC's and see if they are the same type... Older PC's used RAM that has like 2 notches in it, where as the newer RAM has only 1 notch in it& Good Luck!