- Sep 4, 2014
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Hi all,
I've recently purchased an ASRock Z77 Extreme4 motherboard and Gigabyte Radeon R7 265 GPU. I have backed up the files which I desire to keep from my Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB hard drive onto an external hard drive. I have read this guide detailing the use of sysprep: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/135077-windows-7-installation-transfer-new-computer.html
So, from what I understand, because I have an OEM version of Windows 7, the easiest solution for me is to just format my hard drive and do a clean re-install of the Windows 8 OS which I purchased at student price for ~$20. I am wondering if I should still use sysprep to format my HDD and erase all of the drivers; or is there a simpler solution? How should I handle the recovery (D) partition?
I'm not uber computer stupid but, please, keep it simple for me. Thank you for your guidance.
I've recently purchased an ASRock Z77 Extreme4 motherboard and Gigabyte Radeon R7 265 GPU. I have backed up the files which I desire to keep from my Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB hard drive onto an external hard drive. I have read this guide detailing the use of sysprep: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/135077-windows-7-installation-transfer-new-computer.html
So, from what I understand, because I have an OEM version of Windows 7, the easiest solution for me is to just format my hard drive and do a clean re-install of the Windows 8 OS which I purchased at student price for ~$20. I am wondering if I should still use sysprep to format my HDD and erase all of the drivers; or is there a simpler solution? How should I handle the recovery (D) partition?
I'm not uber computer stupid but, please, keep it simple for me. Thank you for your guidance.
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