I got impatient so ordered the bits and am now posting from my shiny new machine. I see that PC hardware has become a bit more user friendly (little trays to slide the drives onto!).
Most impressive of all, I set up a bootable Windows 10 USB but thought I might as well try and just chuck the old SSD in the new machine and see what happens. What happened was, it just booted up and was fine. I had to do a bit of back and forth to get Windows to activate but that was it, so I'm very pleased with that.
Thanks for all the tips everyone, really helpful.
durbster wrote:I've actually still got an old G27 but I've no idea if it still works.
I dug out what was actually a G25. Plugged it in and to my surprise - especially as it was sat on my lap - it burst into life and started auto-calibrating on my testicles.
I then realised I don't have any racing games installed. Project Cars 2 was on offer on Steam so got that downloaded and installed, and got ready to start racing again after all these years.
However, I left the pits and found that, although all the buttons and pedals worked, I had no steering at all. Then I noticed the distinct smell of electrical problems coming from the wheel. I tried a few drivers, checked the power supply but it had nothing left to give. It seems it had made its final calibration.
So now I've got a four day weekend and can't spend any of it racing unless I can get a wheel and pedals delivered
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