[NTLUG:Discuss] Crash recovery

[Fred]

One of my computers' mobo blew a couple days ago,
the one with all my important data, of course. I would
like to have the boot drive from that system boot up
on the other computer but I guess there is way
too much hardware difference. It was on a P4/2.4GHz
mobo, the other box is an Athlon something. When I try,
the boot process stops when it waits for the arrival of the 
hdd drive (It's a long story, yes, I put the drive into the 
IDE1, slave slot). Anyway, it doesn't boot in the AMD box.

I can mount it as a second drive and the data seems to be
all there. I need to be able to not just access the data but to 
run the programs. How do I do that? ... other than getting an 
exact replacement mobo/cpu ....

Fred