Tech question

[Fubar]

I recently got a new PC and gave my old machine to my mother for use with her digital camera, the trouble was that i still had to play many of my old SP games on her PC because of the full security settings the games were started with.

Now after all that rambling my question is....

She has told me that her PC is no longer booting up and from what she describes it sounds like the HDD has gone poof.....typical.....does this mean that all my games are now knackered even if i reinstall SP on her machine, on a new HDD obviously, as the game is bound to think that something funny is going on. :hissy: