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richardalane

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I have windows 7 home premium and I recently purchased a new CPU and MOBO. When I go to boot my PC it starts to but when it shows "microsoft corporation" it goes to a black screen with the option to either start a startup repair or start windows normally. I have the feeling it has to do that the drivers from my last mobo's drivers are preventing the startup. I have tries the startup repair and it says "no problems detected". I have my disc and have tried every sort of repair and system recovery to no avail. The only thing I can think to do is reinstall windows. However, I have thousands of hours that I CANNOT lose. It is for work and very crucial files that cannot be replaced. Is there a way to install to a external hard drive (I have two 1TB external hard drives) and boot so I can use my mobo disc to install it's drivers and stuff? It's christmas and I just got my new stuff last night after not being able to use my PC for a couple weeks so you can imagine my disappointment when I run into this problem. I'd rather not go buy another hard drive, if there is a way to make like a 100GB partition that I can install windows to that would be okay also (as long as I can still access my other partition).
My specs:
AMD Biostar Hi-Fi a85w
AMD athalon quad core 3.4 Ghz 750k
6GB ram
Radeon 7750 1GB
1TB HDD
Thanks!
 
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bryonhowley
Windows does not like motherboard transplants. You can't just replace the motherboard without a reinstall it usually will not work unless it is the same make/model. What you can do and I do not normally suggest it is to to a reinstall without formatting the hard drive. Your old Windows install will still be there it will just be moved to a folder called Windows.old. Inside that folder will be your Windows directory and Program Files directory's plus your User folder. From that you can get what personal files you need from the system. You will still have to re-install any app's games and such that you need but the personal data will be intact.

That would be the best way and as I said your original files will still be intact just moved...
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LouBraun

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The new CPU and MB combination would almost always require a new, clean windows installation. Any data on the hard drive that you are using would be lost - you do not want this to happen!

Recommend using one of your external hard drives as your new primary hard drive. I'd install it in the computer and then do a windows install. Your original hard drive, with all of your data files on it could be connected as a second, or external drive and the data could be recovered. This is tedious but works.
 
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Windows does not like motherboard transplants. You can't just replace the motherboard without a reinstall it usually will not work unless it is the same make/model. What you can do and I do not normally suggest it is to to a reinstall without formatting the hard drive. Your old Windows install will still be there it will just be moved to a folder called Windows.old. Inside that folder will be your Windows directory and Program Files directory's plus your User folder. From that you can get what personal files you need from the system. You will still have to re-install any app's games and such that you need but the personal data will be intact.

That would be the best way and as I said your original files will still be intact just moved to Windows.old Windows does not allow installing to a external hard drive so that would not work. Just select custom install and DO NOT format the drive. After you get all the files you need from the old install you can run Disk Cleanup to remove the Windows.old folder and reclaim the space just make sure you have everything you need first.

Short of buying another hard drive that is about the best option. While there is partitioning software that would allow you to repartition the drive with out loosing the data there is always a chance something could go wrong and corrupt it loosing everything anyway. All a no format install is about the best option at this point.
 
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