- Aug 15, 2014
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I got a 2 beep POST (parity) error and thought my old RAM/mobo died. So I bought a new mobo, CPU & RAM as the old PC was 7+ yo and had a Q6600 and DDR2 on Win 7. I and didn't learn it was the Enermax PSU until I installed them and got the same beeps.
So now I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK, an i5 4690 & DDR3 and a new PSU and it will be on Windows 8.1
I have researched how to boot to the desktop with a new mobo and CPU and the answers are variously: you can't, you shouldn't or a clueless it's easy.
I never kept data (and to the extent possible, programs) on my boot partition and imaged my boot partition using BootIt BareMetal but all that did not help to boot to Windows with new hardware, and even with a clean Win 7 or 8.1 install, I will have to reinstall all my programs, plus I will lose a number that were free one day activation shareware programs.
So I want to look ahead to the day when my current hardware dies and I replace it with new and possibly also upgrade to a new OS if available and try to avoid this situation if possible. I am only switching from Win 7 to 8.1 because if I am going to have to go the trouble to reinstall everything I might as well (and Start8 works great).
I don't think recovery, PE, or sysprep disks will do what I need. Possibly the only thing that would do it, is a program that would track and save registry and driver changes as a program is installed or updated and once the tracking program was reinstalled in a new clean or updated OS, could selectively install a program and selectively uninstall old drivers by chipset or controller and install new ones, or whatever (assuming the registry for any new OS is basically the same as 8.1).
Is there a backup or program that will allow booting with new hardware and preserving program installations and activations?
So now I have a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK, an i5 4690 & DDR3 and a new PSU and it will be on Windows 8.1
I have researched how to boot to the desktop with a new mobo and CPU and the answers are variously: you can't, you shouldn't or a clueless it's easy.
I never kept data (and to the extent possible, programs) on my boot partition and imaged my boot partition using BootIt BareMetal but all that did not help to boot to Windows with new hardware, and even with a clean Win 7 or 8.1 install, I will have to reinstall all my programs, plus I will lose a number that were free one day activation shareware programs.
So I want to look ahead to the day when my current hardware dies and I replace it with new and possibly also upgrade to a new OS if available and try to avoid this situation if possible. I am only switching from Win 7 to 8.1 because if I am going to have to go the trouble to reinstall everything I might as well (and Start8 works great).
I don't think recovery, PE, or sysprep disks will do what I need. Possibly the only thing that would do it, is a program that would track and save registry and driver changes as a program is installed or updated and once the tracking program was reinstalled in a new clean or updated OS, could selectively install a program and selectively uninstall old drivers by chipset or controller and install new ones, or whatever (assuming the registry for any new OS is basically the same as 8.1).
Is there a backup or program that will allow booting with new hardware and preserving program installations and activations?
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