Changing mobo advice needed quick!

Nocky24

Nocky24

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I'm thinking of changing my current mobo, cpu, memory setup with the 4.00Ghz oc'ed i7 bundle on here, but i just need to know what i need to do with my hard drive.

At the moment it has an oem version of vista 64bit premium installed and was thinking of installing the windows 7 64bit beta over it and then installing the new mobo, cpu, memory.

Would this work? and would i have to install windows 7 before the bundle install or after and then boot windows 7 from a dvd?

Any help will be much appreciated, thanks
 
it should work , just make sure you set it to boot from it in bios on new board then boot from dvd and do a repair if won't boot from hard drive , guess it won't as there has been a hardware change ....
But if i was you i would make a backup first just incase , if won't boot or repair then you can do a clean install
karl
 
karlos103 said:
it should work , just make sure you set it to boot from it in bios on new board then boot from dvd and do a repair if won't boot from hard drive , guess it won't as there has been a hardware change ....
But if i was you i would make a backup first just incase , if won't boot or repair then you can do a clean install
karl
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Yeh i was thinking a clean install. Would i be able to install Windows 7 over vista before the hardware changes and just not activate the operating system? Not sure how the windows 7 install works as i'm a bit new to it. All i know is if its oem it binds itself to your motherboard.
 
Do a clean install, ive seen too many upgrades go horribly wrong and then had to "fix" the mess afterwards.
Also as your changing the motherboard you current installation will most likely fall flat on its face.
Unfortunatly Vista/2008 is an utter sod to fix :mad:
 
if it was me just backup everything and do a nice fresh install ...always the easiest route :) atleast you know that your not going to have any problems once its installed .
 
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Thanks for your replies, much appreciated :) Will the Gigabyte UD5 board work on windows 7 RC 64bit though? And do i have to use the vista drivers it comes with on the dvd or will the windows 7 os have its own drivers built in for it?

Thanks
 
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