- Jan 27, 2016
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Okay gentlemen (and ladies), heres the situation.
My plan to upgrade my current desktop ended up mutating into building a new PC from the ground up. However,I would rather keep my windows 7 OS (not an oem i installed it after a gov grade system wipe) instead of going to windows 10 right off the bat. my system at the moment has 2 500gb HDD's, one with almost nothing on it so far. My question is, can i use the secondary drive to create an image that i can transfer to my new rig? I only ask because even though half of the same hardware or more is going into this rig but the motherboard will be different. Also if anyone knows the best way to do an OS transfer (without a clean install which would require ALOT of work reloading programs) please give me a heads up.
My current system is an hp elite 8000 SFF with the irritating BTX mobo, a core 2 duo cpu, nvidia gt 730 gpu and about 10 gigs of ddr3 ram. its being transformed in a manner of speaking, into a custom case with an ASUS P5G41C-M LX Motherboard, new EVGA 430W PSU, a core 2 quad Q9550 (sockets on both mobos are an lga 775, i made sure of this cuz my initial idea was to get a better processor for my SFF but after research found out i couldnt buy a diff case for the btx to promote more space for cooling), and from the old system i will have both seagate 500gb HDD's (barracuda 7200's in case it matters), the gt 730 GPU, and 8 gigs of the current ram ( im going to leave the factory 2gb in and revert it back to a basic desktop with its old 250gb HDD for my fiance.
My plan to upgrade my current desktop ended up mutating into building a new PC from the ground up. However,I would rather keep my windows 7 OS (not an oem i installed it after a gov grade system wipe) instead of going to windows 10 right off the bat. my system at the moment has 2 500gb HDD's, one with almost nothing on it so far. My question is, can i use the secondary drive to create an image that i can transfer to my new rig? I only ask because even though half of the same hardware or more is going into this rig but the motherboard will be different. Also if anyone knows the best way to do an OS transfer (without a clean install which would require ALOT of work reloading programs) please give me a heads up.
My current system is an hp elite 8000 SFF with the irritating BTX mobo, a core 2 duo cpu, nvidia gt 730 gpu and about 10 gigs of ddr3 ram. its being transformed in a manner of speaking, into a custom case with an ASUS P5G41C-M LX Motherboard, new EVGA 430W PSU, a core 2 quad Q9550 (sockets on both mobos are an lga 775, i made sure of this cuz my initial idea was to get a better processor for my SFF but after research found out i couldnt buy a diff case for the btx to promote more space for cooling), and from the old system i will have both seagate 500gb HDD's (barracuda 7200's in case it matters), the gt 730 GPU, and 8 gigs of the current ram ( im going to leave the factory 2gb in and revert it back to a basic desktop with its old 250gb HDD for my fiance.
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