Can you use a hdd from my previous computer, win 7 64bit, it has all my personal info and all games already loaded on it, with a new computer build, new motherboard, new processor and such? If so will it auto recognize the new hardware and look for drivers or will there be conflicts on boot up? Or is the only thing that can be done is use this hdd as a secondary? Meaning i will need a new hdd and new windows install?
Can you use a hdd from an old computer to build a new one?
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So i was reading on here and someone said if its the same mobo and processor company brand that it should work, cause it will use drivers to boot then will update, is that possible?
Should be to say, we have an asus mobo, but its like 7 yrs old, no longer supported and no updated bios or anything, with and intel I7 2600k processor,
Should be to say, we have an asus mobo, but its like 7 yrs old, no longer supported and no updated bios or anything, with and intel I7 2600k processor,
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*if its the exact same motherboard model and exact same processor model it will be fine.
you'll run into many problems if you try using different motherboard models.
backup you documents elsewhere. reinstall windows. reinstall your programs.
you'll run into many problems if you try using different motherboard models.
backup you documents elsewhere. reinstall windows. reinstall your programs.
Should be to say, we have an asus mobo, but its like 7 yrs old, no longer supported and no updated bios or anything, with and intel I7 2600k processor, so what would be a chipset that this would work with ,we hate having to change hdd, we have like 6 of them sitting around here from over the years of upgrading, he is a gamer and its finally on its last leg, crapping out mid game, i have looked at lots of solutions on here and a bunch of stuff was coming back to the mobo, i talked to Asus today and he said that its really old not made anymore and they dont even support it anymore and there is no way to update the bios, it was made 2010 or before he said. So instead of buying another pc built already, we were just going to build this one, back then this was top of the line at over 2300 dollars, we have brand new ram and brand new gpu, the brd rom and cdroms and 2 hdd from this computer, just need a new case, new mobo and cpu, what would you suggest?
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Start here, and post a new thread on this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/353572-31-build-upgrade-advice
And for an old build like this, you really, really need to do a clean install.
Whether the old drive actually works or not.
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