Cloning help before I screw it up. Thanks

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Bulldog187th

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I have a ta785g3 biostar MOBO with a reg sata 200GB HDD and just bought a NEW M5A97 LE R2.0 MOBO with a NEW WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache - WD10EZEX .
My question is should I just install a New OS on the new HDD first and then clone over my files or can I clone my entire old HDD and transfer everything over to my my new HDD.
Im asking because I think it wont work right if I do the entire thing because the Bios setting and stuff will be different. I know the GPU drivers would be different because I also upgraded my GPU.
 
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Ironsounds
Hello... I always just hook up the New drive and not the Old drive... Load Windows and drivers for your new Mb and hardware... When Windows does all you want and all hardware works... Then I hook up my old drive to transfer programs/files... When Windows does all you want, then I re-format the OLd drive and load/transfer new Programs and files on it.

I always download all the latest drivers first for your MB, LAN, Audio, Video card, etc, On a USB stick, for quick fast Install.
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Hello... I always just hook up the New drive and not the Old drive... Load Windows and drivers for your new Mb and hardware... When Windows does all you want and all hardware works... Then I hook up my old drive to transfer programs/files... When Windows does all you want, then I re-format the OLd drive and load/transfer new Programs and files on it.

I always download all the latest drivers first for your MB, LAN, Audio, Video card, etc, On a USB stick, for quick fast Install.
 
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You should always have a backup of your important files anyways so I would just use the old system and clone the old to the new and see if it works in the new system. AMD to AMD often does. You may find that you need to uninstall board specific stuff like the old soundcard, nic, and maybe usb & firewire and then load the new drivers for this board.
 
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Bulldog187th

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I do have a external hard drive with all my back up files. I just saw something about cloning tonight and it got me to thinking that cloning might be easier to do.

I usually do what Ironsounds said. I think I'll just stick to what has worked for me in the past.
Thanks guys
 
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