Previous Mobo: ASUS H61M-K
New Mobo: MSI H61M-P31/W8
Before buying the new mobo, I had 3 partitions (C, D and E with Windows 10 installed on C).
My question is: if I install a new copy of Windows (7) on the C drive (which results in creating a Windows.old folder for the previous OS) and install the new mobo's drivers, then upgrade to Windows 10 and delete the Windows.old folder, will my computer encounter any problems?
Or can I just format the C drive where the OS is currently installed and leave D & E intact?
The reason I want to do this is because I have over 200GBs worth of files (on the D&E partitions) I don't want to get rid of and it takes me too much time to upload them to an online drive. A second HDD is out of the question in my case.
New Mobo: MSI H61M-P31/W8
Before buying the new mobo, I had 3 partitions (C, D and E with Windows 10 installed on C).
My question is: if I install a new copy of Windows (7) on the C drive (which results in creating a Windows.old folder for the previous OS) and install the new mobo's drivers, then upgrade to Windows 10 and delete the Windows.old folder, will my computer encounter any problems?
Or can I just format the C drive where the OS is currently installed and leave D & E intact?
The reason I want to do this is because I have over 200GBs worth of files (on the D&E partitions) I don't want to get rid of and it takes me too much time to upload them to an online drive. A second HDD is out of the question in my case.