Safe to go when upgrading?

Silenced · 25 Apr 2009 at 11:49

Hi all,

I am currently going to do an upgrade on my fathers PC, changing the Case, PSU, CPU, Mobo and graphics card. And I was wondering, do I need to back up my dads HDD's? If I do it will be rather annoying as is it really needed?

Silenced · 25 Apr 2009 at 11:55

J.B said:
well if you change the mobo you will probably need to reinstall windows. I would back up all his docs, pics, music etc and be ready to reinstall his programs.

Hmm, annoying, very annoying, his hard drive is like a minefield, everything is scattered everywhere, so this may be hard to do... I'll back it up, put it on another Hard Drive, and test if it'll work without a reinstall, if it does then great, if not, I'm going to have a long time fixing it all...

Silenced · 25 Apr 2009 at 11:57

Oh yea, and so you guys know, the PC is like 10 to 11 years old, something stupidly high like that, so his hard drive is like, everywhere since 10 to 11 years of loading crap onto it in random places.

Silenced · 25 Apr 2009 at 12:45

J.B said:
To be honest its always a good idea to reinstall after a hardware change anyway becuase all the old drivers and things are loaded for the old hardware and now the new ones are going on top.

That is a very good point, thanks for that, didn't think of it.

Silenced · 25 Apr 2009 at 13:33

RJC said:
When changing the motherboard I tend to do a reinstall

OK, I shall do that.

gamesaregood said:
I would also replace the old Old HDD, if its 10 - 11 years old then its going to be a slow IDE which is seriously going to hold back the new system.

Yea, it's a IDE one, I've gotten him a bigger HDD than his 80GB one, I ripped apart his External HDD he bought to back up stuff, although it didn't work, I'll use my PC for transferring from one to another as my PC is wayy faster. I cut into my hand getting that HDD too, I slid my finger along a bit of it to rip the case of and it sliced deep into my finger