- Feb 4, 2015
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Ok, so here's the run down. My parents 12 year old pc motherboard died. I bought a bunch of parts and replaced them, new Mobo, CPU, RAM, PSU. Problem is windows repair is in a loop and from all I can find I need to install fresh copy of windows, no biggie.
Now, my parents don't wanna let go of all the crap they have on the old HDD, pictures, music, etc.. understandable, so I have two options. Either have them buy a new HDD, boot windows on the new HDD and keep the old one on there to show as a Local Disk in This PC - from where I'l transfer all the stuff they want onto the new Disk and eventually take out the old one.
My other option, which is where you guys come in. Is it possible for me to install a newer version of Windows on their old HDD, how does partitioning work? When I chose the usb as the boot option to install Windows will it give me the option to create a partition instead of replacing the old version of Windows in a clean installation? I assume that's how that works. Assuming I'm right will the partition with the old version of Windows show in This PC as a Local Disk separate from the partition with the new version of Windows? In which case I can move all the files they want from one to the other as I would with two separate HDDs. If that's the case, is it then possible that once I have all the files I want from the partition with the old windows moved to the new one, can I uninstall the old copy of windows and delete the partition with the old version and then have the entire HDD for the partition I created for the new version of Windows?
Now, my parents don't wanna let go of all the crap they have on the old HDD, pictures, music, etc.. understandable, so I have two options. Either have them buy a new HDD, boot windows on the new HDD and keep the old one on there to show as a Local Disk in This PC - from where I'l transfer all the stuff they want onto the new Disk and eventually take out the old one.
My other option, which is where you guys come in. Is it possible for me to install a newer version of Windows on their old HDD, how does partitioning work? When I chose the usb as the boot option to install Windows will it give me the option to create a partition instead of replacing the old version of Windows in a clean installation? I assume that's how that works. Assuming I'm right will the partition with the old version of Windows show in This PC as a Local Disk separate from the partition with the new version of Windows? In which case I can move all the files they want from one to the other as I would with two separate HDDs. If that's the case, is it then possible that once I have all the files I want from the partition with the old windows moved to the new one, can I uninstall the old copy of windows and delete the partition with the old version and then have the entire HDD for the partition I created for the new version of Windows?
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