Okay so im getting a new motherboard soon and a new cpu, this obviously means that my windows 7 install is never going to work, there are some ways to do it and i don't know if ill try them but again back to the point. If I bought a small SSD eg 64 GB and installed windows on it, would I be able to get all my links back to the new windows and delete the old one entirely? for example my installs will they come up in the add and remove programs of the new windows installation? Or would it be much simpler and easier to just lose everything and reinstall windows completely?
New Motherboard Problem!
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You can't just copy program files and things like that and expect installs to work.
To ensure your existing install fits at home you need to uninstall various system devices in Device Manager just before unpliugging and installing the new mobo.
1: Branded (eg: Intel) IDE/SATA controllers
2: Branded USB Controllers
3: Branded controllers under "System Devices"
4: Display Adapter(s)
5: Processors
6: Network adapters
7: Soundcard from Sound, Video and Game controllers section
That will force Windows into re0initialising the new mobo components and installing drivers for them.
I've done this twice in the history of my Win7 install and it's worked flawlessly each time. You will need to reinstall the GFX/Sound drivers afterwards.
If the mobo has an Intel chipset then iut would be worth installing the latest Intel Chipset software and also the Storage driver software.
To ensure your existing install fits at home you need to uninstall various system devices in Device Manager just before unpliugging and installing the new mobo.
1: Branded (eg: Intel) IDE/SATA controllers
2: Branded USB Controllers
3: Branded controllers under "System Devices"
4: Display Adapter(s)
5: Processors
6: Network adapters
7: Soundcard from Sound, Video and Game controllers section
That will force Windows into re0initialising the new mobo components and installing drivers for them.
I've done this twice in the history of my Win7 install and it's worked flawlessly each time. You will need to reinstall the GFX/Sound drivers afterwards.
If the mobo has an Intel chipset then iut would be worth installing the latest Intel Chipset software and also the Storage driver software.
The board is going from an asus m4n68t to a p8p67 deluxe rev 3.0 so amd to intel so the straight swap will probably not work >.< Okay so i basically remove all drivers before swap and the after swap install them all with new board? is there any programs to remove all the drivers at once? or is manually the best way?
Thanks
Thanks
Okay thanks very much i'll do that when the board and cpu arrives, do you have any tips on finding all these drivers or just seach the 7 you stated?
Thanks again great help, thought a complete clean install was needed, too many games
Thanks again great help, thought a complete clean install was needed, too many games
I've replaced motherboards this multiple times on many PCs in the history of Windows XP, Vista and 7 and it has also worked flawlessly every time, I have never had to reinstall until I (was forced to) install 7 64bit over XP 32bit on my main machine.
I have no idea why people insist you need to reinstall for any hardware change, surely the best option is just to upgrade the hardware and give it a shot, if it fails then reinstall, if you've backed up your crap then what's the problem ?
I know there's the argument about bloated registries and old drivers, but for me, reinstalling all your programs reconfiguring the machine is such a pain*, especially if you're upgrading so often.
* maybe less so nowadays, most of my software is steam games, which can be reinstalled very easily.