moving components from one case to another

dvorsiman · Jul 26, 2016

hello!

i'm upgrading my graphics card and psu and to do so, i had to purchase a new, bigger case. therefore, im gonna have to move all the components into the new one and im wondering if ill have to reinstall windows or if any of my old data will be lost in the process?

thanks for your time!

USAFRet · Jul 26, 2016

It's just a case. No reinstallation of anything needed.
As long as you put it back together correctly.

Wayfall · Jul 26, 2016

Your moving parts.... so of course you won't loose data. The only reason you would have to do a reinstall would be if you changed MOBO.

Hlsgsz · Jul 26, 2016

If you are not changing your HDD/SSD, nothing will change. No worries. GPU/PSU/Case have nothing to do with it.

misteriosly · Jul 26, 2016

If you aren't careful yeah, else there should be no problem.
You would only need to reinstall graphic card.

Inkiad · Jul 26, 2016

You don't have to reinstall windows. You would not be doing anything to your data in hard drive.

Just unplug(disassemble) everything, assemble it in the new case, make sure everything is correctly plugged in. Boot your system and install driver for the new graphics card. That's pretty much it.

Wayfall · Jul 26, 2016

USAFRet :

I don't think it matters what SATA slot you put the drives in but to be safe try and put them in how they were before or at least in order.

Master HDD/SDD drive (Operating System) = SATA Slot 0
Secondary drive (junk, games and other media) = SATA Slot 1
CD/DVD drive = SATA Slot 3

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