Windows 7 motherboard upgrade. Advice?

NeptuneUK

NeptuneUK

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Hey, I'm shortly going to be upgrading my motherboard + cpu however I don't currently have my windows 7 dvd (it's at home and I'm at my student flat)
So I'll be attempting to upgrade without a fresh install even though I'm relatively inexperienced with windows 7.
I know it's a bad idea but are there any ways to minimize the chances of things going pear shaped?
Should I uninstall the current motherboard drivers before the hardware upgrade, or leave it until afterwards?
I figure the worst case scenario is that I'll have to wait a couple of weeks to get the disc back, I'm not happy with playing around with a fresh install anyway unless it's absolutely necessary as I have a lot of games/apps etc installed, most of which are digital downloads. (I'm also planning on getting a new hard drive and would prefer to wait until then)

Thanks in advance.
 
Why don't you wait for a bit and get yourself a copy of the W7 disk and the hard drive before going ahead? (What poster above suggested is also a good idea).

I have done what you are trying to achieve before. It actually worked (kinda), un-install any software/drivers for the Mobo and then shutdown and switch it.

When I say kinda, it booted, took about 10 minutes sorting itself out and then proceeded to work fine for a short period. After said short period it blue screened and refused to play ball. So I had to do a full clean install anyway.

I decided it was probably for the best given the changes that took place. You could do it all now, and when you are finished take a system image and put it on another drive. When you get your new HDD, just do a reinstall/repair and use the image to restore to the point of your clean install?

Just a thought, risky if you have no way of reinstalling Windows 7 though, as it has a high chance of going wrong.
 
I don't have a DVD burner on my PC. But I guess I can get a friend to burn me one thanks.
I reckon for the time being I won't have too much of an issue, I don't recall any problems when tinkering with hardware in the vista days.
 
Installing off a USB stick is much quicker anyway. You only need 4gb one
http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool - takes a couple of minutes and makes it bootable and everything. Also, once it is done you can browse SOURCES\ie.cfg and delete it, and then you can select which version to install. You will need the key that relates to that version, but handy nonetheless
 
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